Posted on 06/27/2018 10:14:06 AM PDT by MeganC
From an email:
Dear SEIU Local 1000 Members:
Today the Supreme Court issued the long-awaited decision in the case of Janus vs. AFSCME. As expected, we witnessed the highest legal authority in the United States disregard 40 years of their own legal precedents protecting workers’ rights and instead choose to continue to erode unions.
The Janus vs. AFSCME case was argued by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation – a group whose sole purpose is to break unions. This case, like many others, is supported and funded by billionaires and corporations who began the “Right to Work” movement. These groups aim to strip workers’ rights, suppress wages and ship jobs overseas to maximize their personal profits.
While these special interest groups may be celebrating today, they are underestimating the strength of our union. Thousands of our members have already made the choice to stand with their coworkers and choose our union because they understand that standing together strengthens our ability to negotiate good contracts, fight for higher wages, defend our members’ rights and protect our hard-earned pensions.
Next year we head into bargaining with the state. During our last collective bargaining, we negotiated the largest contact in the history of the State of California. Our contract included an across the board 11.5% pay increase and a $2,500 bonus. Together we won a host of working condition benefits like a pathway to end mandatory overtime, increased opportunities for upward mobility and mechanisms to address discrepancies in the cost of living throughout our state.
These victories were the result of a strong, active membership and the work of thousands of members and leaders who stood strong in the face of adversity to fight for their families.
Our unprecedented wins at SEIU Local 1000 are in sharp contrast to what we’ve seen in places like Wisconsin, where the state workers contract went from 397 pages to 4 after the passage of anti-union legislation. Since 2010, Wisconsin has seen the largest middle-class decline of any state, with public employees receiving only a 2% salary increase and health contributions reducing employees’ take-home pay by up to 12%.
Across the country, workers in “Right to Work” states make on average $6100 less a year, the poverty rate is higher, more people are uninsured and workers are 49% more likely to die on the job.
We know that when we choose our union, we choose a strong contract, we choose to fight for our hard-earned pensions, and we choose to build the power and strength of SEIU Local 1000. Our eyes are wide open to what this case is about. If the billionaires who funded it think they can defeat us, they are sadly mistaken. We have been under attack for decades, yet we continue to grow stronger. I am proud of what we have accomplished together and I look forward to what SEIU Local 1000 will continue to build for our members and all Californians.
In Solidarity, Yvonne R. Walker President SEIU Local 1000
LOL! What else can they say, they LOST and lost big.
Gee,who knows! Maybe now the pinky ringed thug leaders of “public service” unions might have to settle for a pension of $100K a year instead of the current $150K.
Union supporters on Facebook are posting “I’m with the union” posts, but offer no reasoning for that choice. Wondering how best to reply to that idiocy?
Depends on how you define poverty. Once you adjust for COL, California’s poverty rate is quite high. Some of the poverty rate metrics you see do not adjust for cost of living, even though a 1 bedroom apartment may only cost $600 in MS but $2,000 in CA.
Leftists, Unions, Democrats etc are so predictable in their response to losses. You’d think they would have enough smarts to try a different tact. Fortunately for clear thinking people, they aren’t that smart.
If a law was passed which capped union *official’s* total compensation package to no more than $30K per yr...all this sh!t would end...Nobody would care how much of a raise gov employees receive.
I wonder how many public sector workers are contacting HR or their payroll office today to see how to not opt-in.
I was FORCED to be a SEIU member when I took a job to feed my family. F ‘em.
How long did you have to work pulling tricks at the bus station to get your self respect back?
Sorry, couldn't resist. LOL
If someone is negotiating for me I pay dues into their organization, which I feel is the honorable thing to do. There was no option for me to negotiate on my own behalf.
Really? I would have expected New Mexico would be at the top of the list.
All I can say is the unions will lose a lot of folks and a lot of money, but the hard core can’t be reasoned with.
Back in the early 90s, SNL had the, "Richmeister," sketches which resulted in a lot of people applying the, "-meister," or so my the, "-ster" suffix to other people's names, titles, etc. It was originally used as a term of endearment, but became so trite and overused that it started to be used as a term of derision or diminution, which is how I've always applied it to Obamster.
Thanks for posting. This shows how badly they are hut by the SCOTUS decision.
What is eroding unions, are unions! The farther left they continue to slide the more members they lose and the more times they fail to organize new unions.
Roger, I copy that. It's just an old joke that was fun to slip into the comments while we are talking about the "yuge" win over the collectivist union mentality.
Marx said, "Workers of the World Unite" and unions became the vanguard of the attack on Capitalism and our whole way of life. Read the back of a union card and you'll see it's right out of the Communist Manifesto. "Rise Brothers!" It really makes me sick.
You’re wrong. I prefer OBOLA.
“Poverty rate higher? California has highest poverty rate in the country.”
Yes, and it’s because of 11% pay increases and $2,500 bonuses for a bunch of worthless A$$holes who aren’t worth half what they are being paid. Just had to go to the local USPS to pick of a package. They certainly don’t kill time by working it to death! Virtually everyone in the place is a minority and they act “protected!”
So you think my handle is a little dated?
Your sign up date has you grandfathered under the endearment category :)
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