Posted on 02/15/2024 8:51:36 PM PST by Drew68
In St. Johns County, on the Atlantic shore of Northeast Florida, more than 55% of public school teachers paid their union dues this last year. Despite that, nearly 3,500 teachers are facing the threat of having their union representation revoked. At the same time, in Southwest Florida, only 16% of law enforcement officers of the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office paid union dues last year. Their union is under absolutely no threat of being decertified.
A year after Governor DeSantis signed into law a sweeping anti-union bill requiring most public sector unions to boost the rate of members paying dues or be disbanded, the full effects of the new union rules are coming into clear view — double standards and all.
Law enforcement, firefighter and correctional officer unions are exempt from the new law, no matter how few members pay union dues.
For other public sector unions, what is emerging is an outright crisis.
A labor economist warned the law could prove to be more effective in destroying labor power in Florida than the landmark Act 10 proved to be in Wisconsin, a law broadly considered as one of the strongest anti-union laws ever passed by a state government.
After reviewing hundreds of pages of state union recertification filings, WLRN can reveal that already several tens of thousands of workers have quietly lost their collective bargaining rights, a right that is explicitly protected by the Florida Constitution.
Unions representing tens of thousands of additional public sector workers across the state are in danger of being decertified and dissolved.
The numbers are not being tracked or published by the state or any labor organization, so WLRN requested the records and created a public database to track the fallout of the law.
Most affected employees perform core public sector jobs like teaching...
(Excerpt) Read more at wlrn.org ...
The paper does its best to make it sound like losing the union will impact the job, concerned about teachers jobs, yellow journalism full display.
Truth is the best thing to happen to schools are the teachers unions dissolving.
Go Ron!
Golly, who knew that “collective bargaining rights” requires that union certification vote be a one time thing, like voting a communist party into power.
“Go Ron!”
DeSantis ROCKS again!!!
What courage, he signed a bill sent to him by a veto-proof Republican legislature.
Yep. It’s a 10,000 word sob story.
Because he flipped the state crimson red.
That’s leadership.
Awwwwwwww!
Wow, is there anything he can’t do?
Other than not win nomination, of course.
Gov. DeSantis gets things done. For example:
• The teachers’ union law is part of how he’s dismantling wokeness in the education system at all levels (kindergarten through university).
• His transportation of illegal aliens to Martha’s Vineyard was a wedge that opened up the immigration debate.
• He successfully went after so-called “third party voter registration organizations.”
I’m so tired of RINOs who pay lip service to conservative principles but do nothing — or worse yet, do the opposite.
Flordians keep winning with Governor DeSantis.
Yep.
LOL! You Trumpers are a hoot!
Not only do you not want a conservative president, you don't even want conservative governors to implement conservative policies in their own states because it makes Trump look bad.
Freed from, not lost.
How many of them felt "represented" by their unions?
-PJ
Great Governor. I wonder who blew smoke up his butt and had him believe he could be President.
Awesome! Are Florida’s government employees unionized. They should be the next to go.
Even that Commie FDR was against public sector unions.
Get rid of them all.
Gained their freedom?
Okay, guys let’s tone down the enthusiasm for the awesome Governor of Florida. There are some on this forum suffering debilitating DDS that will think “desanctimonius still trying to promote himself....” Our praise might cause them to harm themselves or at a minimum post some cult inanity.
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