I’ve been saying this for years. NO GOV UNIONS.
You are already working for the biggest union.
“...Experts were taken aback by the scope of Walker’s proposals, which seek to undo decades of law and would gut the landmark National Relations Labor Act — adopted in 1935 and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the height of the Great Depression.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Ann Hodges, a professor at the University of Richmond who has studied labor law for more than 40 years. “This will take the breath away from anyone who’s worked in labor relations for any length of time. ... It’s pretty draconian.”
Walker’s plan also calls for prohibiting automatic withdrawal of union dues to be used for political purposes and forbidding union organizers to access employees’ personal information, such as their phone numbers.
Lee Adler, a labor law expert at Cornell University, said Walker’s proposals would eliminate workers’ rights and make it more difficult for people to join the middle class.”
You can’t ban unions for govt employees - freedom of association is in the constitution - I think what Gov Walker meant was ban “striking” of govt workers - which is something that FDR himself said should not be allowed.
One small problem.. currently there are nearly 22 million government employees and only 12 million workers in the private sector.
Consider there are 94 million people NO LONGER in the workforce. Many of them are on government handout programs, such as disability, food stamps, aid to dependent children, etc, etc.
Government workers and handout receipients already at the feeding trough are NOT going to vote for anyone or anything that resembles removing their esteemed trough.
Throughout American history — and as recently as the 1950s — there were no unions for government workers. Public-sector employees were expected to earn a bit less than their private-sector equivalents. The reasons they did so included an interest in public service, job security and reasonable benefits.
. . . in 1962, when President John F. Kennedy granted federal employees the right to collectively bargain. Since then, public sector union membership has skyrocketed while, in the private sector, unions have fallen out of favor.
Source:
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/02/illustrated-history-of-public-sector.html