Union Busting 101
As usual, the fundamental irony is that most police association members are aligned in terms of politics and world view with the very people trying to pick their pockets.
According to a recent article in The New York Times, the war on labor, although wildly successful already, is apparently just ramping up. Not too many people know about the new rules that favor banks over pensioners that were agreed to in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – a major international trade pact. And sadly even fewer people will hear anything about a hot, new union-busting strategy.
Conservative groups are opening a new front in the war on unions. The battlefield will be county governments. It’s basically an extension of the constitutional sheriff principal. That notion involves the idea that a county sheriff actually has more power than the president of the United States. The new county battlefield strategy operates on the same principal. The idea is that counties should be in charge pensions and labor laws – not states.
In Kentucky, the Warren County Fiscal Court approved in a “right to work” ordinance that would allow employees represented by a union to opt out of paying union fees in a 6 to 1 vote. This week two more Kentucky counties, Fulton and Simpson, followed suit, and a dozen more are expected to do the same in the next six weeks. So, if you work for a county and don’t currently enjoy the “right to work,” odds are you will soon.
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