Posted on 09/12/2012 12:59:07 PM PDT by neverdem
In general, teachers score way below average among college graduates for aptitude and subject knowledge—with inner city teachers on average the lowest of the low. They get not weeks, but months of vacation, a higher salary than they could earn in the private workforce, and then over-generous, defined benefit as opposed to defined contribution, pensions.
That they get government-enabled union representation to bilk taxpayers like that is reprehensible, and the sooner we get union representation out of government employment, the better off our kids and our country will be.
All you have to do is amend the Constitution to remove the right of free assembly and you can get rid of unions.
I am all for laws preventing public employees from striking.
No, I’m fine with freedom of assembly. I don’t like the federal laws that give unions special rights and keep employers from hiring and firing whom they’d like.
Unions should be free to strike, employers free to hire others in replacement, and employees free to work without paying tribute to unions or being forced by unions to strike if they don’t want to.
Employers can hire replacements for striking workers and sometimes do federal laws don’t stop this. Most of the time they prefer to stay within the union-employer relationship for various reasons.
See Reagan vs the ATC.
That was because the ATC strike was illegal. Surely you knew that?
And federal law forces employers to recognize and negotiate with unions, such as they can’t simply hire non-union employees to replace ‘legally’ striking workers (or union organizers or...)
If employers wanted to negotiate with representatives of unions for all of their employees they could do so voluntarily without our laws requiring it of them.
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Check out the results of the strike at Caterpillar some years back. Striking workers can be replaced in the private sector.
Right to work states also exist which would not be the case if employers had by federal law to deal with unions.
Actually, you are completely wrong about right-to-work states. All that those state laws provide is the right for individual workers not to join unions. Employers are in no way exempt from having to deal with unions in their workplace.
Legal strikers in the private sector generally can only be replaced in the broader market, not there locally in their plant—as the Caterpillar workers realized.
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