I am surprised that this is not getting greater play around the blogosphere, unless people just feel that the complete takeover of California by labor unions is simply inevitable.
The bill, AB 455, passed California's state Senate by a vote of 23-14 on Tuesday and now awaits the signature of Gov. Jerry Brown. If signed into law, AB 455 would allow unions to appoint half of the members of bodies that resolve disputes regarding wages, hours and other terms of conditions of employment. If multiple bargaining units are represented by different recognized employee organizations, the union representing the "largest number of employees would designate commission members pursuant to that provision," according to the bill.
The "bodies" - a great term to use as it evokes the image of casualties - referenced here are city and county civil service commissions. You might remember them, legislative entities to which people were either elected or appointed by elective officials.
In short, this piece of legislation will allow unions to bypass the system of voting and instead get to sit right at the policy-making table at the municipal and county levels without any say-so by those people, union or not, living within the boundaries of the "bodies."
With the shrinkage of manufacturers and other businesses in California, this would likely mean that the "union representing the largest number of employees" would be public employee unions. That also means that since so many existing members of city and county legislature are likely members of public unions, expect to see the union get the majority vote. On all policies.
What could happen then? Non-union shops within a city or county subject to greater "fees?" More guaranteed returns on pensions, where if the market does not provide it, the difference will be made up by the taxpayers, as is already seen in the two biggest public pensions in California, CALSTRS and CALPERS?
Is it any coincidence that a Troublemakers School to help people learn to be "union activist" was recently offered at Pasadena City College . . . a place, by the way, financed through tax dollars?
Wake up, California, and take back your state!
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...unless people just feel that the complete takeover of California by labor unions is simply inevitable.
Kinda hard to rule out in a state that, uncorrected by experience, put Moonbeam in the governor's mansion...again.
You know what this current crowd of GOP liars want is to turn the United Sates into China, where only a few giant corporations run things, they own the factories, the apartments, the grocery stores, the gas stations, the newspaper and magazine publications, the radio stations, the television stations and you pay them and they get all the benefits, and if you do not like it go jump off cliff. Well some Chinese workers seeing that as individuals that they cannot progress have done just that by committing suicide.
The current crowd of GOP liars want to steal Medicare from the elderly, they want to abolish a woman’s right to choose and have control over her own body, they want to abolish collective bargaining rights for our Unions, and on top of it all they want to blame the poor, the middle class and the public sector workers for a recession that the GOP created (Thanks to the Dullard “W”), while their beloved “Fat cats” continue to pay themselves exorbitant salaries, bonuses, fringe benefits.
The GOP is like the “Chicken Littles” always saying that the “Sky is Falling”, like the same ones that were the “Chicken Hawks” (“W” Wars), big talk no courage.
The United States, favors creativity wherever it can be found. We’re apostles of prosperity and defenders of the free exchange of ideas and when more people in more countries are free to rise, to invent, to communicate, to dissent, it’s not the doom of United States leadership, its the triumph of the American way.
Generations have worked hard and sacrificed much for the country to reach this point (individuals and our Unions that represented our poor, the middle class and public sector workers), and with further hard work and sacrifice (along with our relentless self-doubt) the United States will rise again, we do not tire and we are coming back, no matter what Fox news and their GOP “Chicken Littles” lackies keep saying about our nation. The win in New York was the beginning but the next will be Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and later the other states of our nation, Never Bet Against the United States, watch out GOP, we are coming for you!
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