Tennessee legislature votes to limit teachers union role

(Reuters) - The Tennessee House of Representatives approved a bill late on Friday that curbs collective bargaining for teachers.

The House's 55-40 vote after 11 p.m. echoed the Senate's 19-12 approval earlier in the evening of a compromise measure that keeps elements of collective bargaining, but with strict limits, and replaces union negotiations with what instead is called "collaborative conferencing."

The bill will now go to Governor Bill Haslam for his signature.

The collaborative conferencing procedure will involve a hashing out of problems between school boards and representatives elected by the teachers in secret ballot.

The Tennessee Education Association could be elected to serve in the collaborative conferencing groups, but not in the formal negotiating role.

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The right of free association is guaranteed. Unions built this country.Why do these fucking neanderthals wish to tear it it down? Do they think they could get away w/ this shit any place other than a democracy?

I don't think many of these union busting bills will hold up in court.

still upheld in NC, VA, & TX?