Posted on 12/31/2002 11:27:57 PM PST by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:00:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Last month the Labor Department proposed new rules that will require the largest labor unions to more thoroughly disclose how members' dues are spent. The reporting changes thus far have gone virtually unremarked upon, but the proposal promises to be one of the biggest shake-ups to organized labor since the governing legislation, the Landrum-Griffin Act, was first passed in 1959.
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Hopefully, this is just the beginning.
It will take decades to clean up Democrat corruption, and this is a nice start.
Great post!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Just remember, all, unions exist to protect people with non-transferable job skills.
If you don't have transferable skills, GET THEM, otherwise don't whinge. If union members had developed job skills that were in demand in more than one job sector, you couldn't get them into a union with a court order. They would thumb their collective nose and go elsewhere.
If you have transferrable skills and your company offers a severance package, ALWAYS take the first offer. Sell any company stock and RUN. Failure to take this advice has cost us over $100K. Don't worry about us, were fine.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
The provisions on taking over schools that fail to produce quality education and offering vouchers to failing schools is a real threat to the status quo of militant teachers. Also the reporting requirements and blatent disregrad for illegal political spending on the part of the NEA and its state affiliates is also going to doom the NEA.
I think that the mindless support of democrats is going to really hurt organizaed labor and the teachers union now that republicans control the federal government. I hope they serve as an object lesson to other unions.
Whatever happened to the stalwart Republican party?
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