Posted on 03/08/2011 8:11:08 PM PST by NaturalBornConservative
Hasta La Vista!!!
" Wisconsin is not broke. " ~ Some Rich Fat Guy ~
Whatever rich fat guy, but who asked you anyway. The election is over. You lose, we win.
~ By: Larry Walker, Jr. ~
While state and local government employee unions (aka. public unions) clutch desperately to what they falsely perceive to be a God-given right to organize, pro football players are planning to de-unionize. You see, the National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) has legal options under federal law, while state and local government workers have none. Public workers exist to serve the public, and are compensated from tax dollars, not from profits earned in the private sector.
“The National Labor Relations Act or Wagner Act (P.L. 74-198, 49 Stat. 449, codified as amended at 29 U.S.C. § 151–169) is a 1935 United States federal law that limits the means with which employers may react to workers in the private sector who create labor unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take part in strikes and other forms of concerted activity in support of their demands. The Act does not apply to workers who are covered by the Railway Labor Act, agricultural employees, domestic employees, supervisors, federal, state or local government workers, independent contractors and some close relatives of individual employers.”
As for NFL players, decertifying the union means firing the NFLPA as their bargaining agent, which will prevent NFL owners from locking out the players when the existing collective bargaining agreement expires. Any lockout at that point would be a violation of federal antitrust law. Decertifying will also allow individual players to sue the NFL and their respective teams. The tactic has worked before, resulting in NFL players gaining free agent rights.
On the other hand, state and local government servants in Wisconsin and other states don't have this option or any others. You see, public servants are not covered by federal labor relations laws. They have only been allowed to unionize under state laws granting them make-believe rights. In reality, all it would take to completely do away with public employee unions is a determined state house majority, duly elected by a base of overburdened taxpayers. And that's where things stand. Hasta la vista!
AFTER HAVING DONE ALL STAND! ~ Eph 6:10-20
BTW: The word fat was directed at Moore in the sense of his reasoning being "practically nonexistent" (i.e. a fat chance).
Related:
Public Union Membership in Numbers
With public unions collective bargaining is a misnomer. It falls into the category of massed demands. Binding arbitration soon follows. Can mob rule be near ?
The real fight is to prevent the states from passing laws prohibiting the use of state resources and state personnel to collect and disperse union dues. The unions KNOW that if they have to collect their dues from the individual instead of getting nice fat checks from the state, MANY union members will not pay up.
Mob rule isn't always perfect, but at least it's rarely boring.
Oops...excuse double post...I had an obamacare twitch on my mouse finger....
Walker is on a local talk show right now - was asked about deceritfying public unions in WI. Did not directly answer, but said he is looking at all options. (Decertification is an option in WI).
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