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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Foes of Unions Try Their Luck in County Laws"
Foes of Unions Try Their Luck in County LawsBy SHAILA DEWAN at the NY Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/us/politics/foes-of-unions-try-their-luck-in-county-laws.html
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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. Conservative groups are opening a new front in their effort to reshape American law, arguing that local governments have the power to write their own rules on a key labor issue that has, up to now, been the prerogative of states.
Beginning here in the hometown of Senator Rand Paul and the Chevy Corvette, groups including the American Legislative Exchange Council, the Heritage Foundation and a newly formed nonprofit called Protect My Check are working together to influence local governments the same way they have influenced state legislatures, and anti-union ordinances are just the first step in the coordinated effort they envision.
A carefully devised plan began to unfold last week, when the Warren County Fiscal Court met here and preliminarily approved, in a 6 to 1 vote, a right to work ordinance that would allow employees represented by a union to opt out of paying union fees. 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.
Supporters of the effort say that if they are successful in Kentucky, they will try to pass similar local laws in Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and other places that do not have a statewide right-to-work law. Protect My Check is promising to pay for the legal battles of any local government that tries it.
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"Foes of Unions Try Their Luck in County Laws" (Original Post)
applegrove
Dec 2014
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neverforget
(9,436 posts)1. I belong to a union (SMART formerly UTU) and I can't believe
how many right wingers there are in my union. We have great benefits and are paid well but they support the very same politicians that would destroy their income. Oh, and they also hate the company because they try to get out of paying what we're due per the contracts.
applegrove
(118,695 posts)2. Sheeple. How sad.
safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)3. My little tiny post office always had Rush
blasting on the radio. The lady that delivers my mail also did the same.
Now they have laid off 2 of the five workers and cut their hours, and I no longer hear the Rush show on their radios.