Posted on 04/02/2020 1:37:26 PM PDT by BackRoads775
Clark County Manager Yolanda King has suspended union contracts for some 9,000 employees, including medical workers at University Medical Center.
The move, which union leaders say was unprecedented and came without warning Tuesday, followed a March 15 emergency declaration by the county. In an email sent to county employees Wednesday evening, King wrote that the contracts would remain suspended through the duration of the emergency, which was spurred by the new coronavirus outbreak.
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Old Clark County story:
“Three years before the impoundment of Cliven Bundy’s cattle turned into an armed confrontation between anti-government groups and federal agents, the FBI made an assessment that the Nevada rancher personally was unlikely to be violent in the event of conflict. The agency suggested a novel solution to Bundy’s 20 years of unpaid bills, one designed to put the dispute to rest: drop the fines he owed altogether.
The FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit, based in Quantico, Va., determined in 2011 that the rancher was unlikely to comply with federal court orders to move his 900 animals off federal land, where they had been illegally grazing, because “he only has enough land to handle less than 100 head of cattle.” Though the Bureau of Land Management was concerned that allowing Bundy to avoid paying federal grazing fees and fines could lead to violence, the FBI thought otherwise.
“BLM may wish to consider waiving the existing fines, as a gesture of willingness to participate in discussions geared toward negotiations,” the FBI wrote in the classified analysis, obtained by The Washington Post. The unit concluded that any alternatives the government could offer Bundy might reduce the rancher’s stress and “in turn, reduce the risk of a violent act.””
“The government did not heed that advice.”
I would expect that there will be more of these types of contract suspensions to the extent they are allowed by law.
A $1.5 bil annual budget and they still can’t find the money.
Well, 3 guesses why, eh?
B-but... we had a signed contract!
Pretty much anything is allowed by law when the invoke force majeure....
And maybe the employee will suspend their presence at work. T
Gee, if you have 101.4 you have a fever and are not allowed to go into work until the fever has cleared for three days.
(at least for employers in my work county)
Wrong thread?
Look like one of the main reasons was to allow for more modifications to schedules. The contract may have provisions for employees with more seniority to bump lower seniority employees for preferred work shifts, etc.
I bet she is a Democrat.
I bet I am laughing at the poor union who supported her party.
I was just saying that there might be a sick out. As simple a reason as a fever can prevent you from going in to work.
I represented unions in private practice in the early 1980s in a city where unions were fairly strong. Some employers (before bankruptcy laws changed) were trying to use bankruptcy laws to try to break union contracts without negotiating with the unions so that they could cut wages. I successfully argued to several bankruptcy judges that if the court allowed the employers to break the contracts, that also meant the no strike/no picketing clauses of those contracts would no longer be in effect, and the judge would have to figure out if the economic impact on the employer of a strike and/or picketing would outweigh any employer savings from being able to cut wages.
Exactly, I don’t know why Freepers are attacking the county for doing what is necessary to provide people for each schedule. Union contracts are all sorts of rules for staffing, down to tiny details which are just not possible at this time.
Ok. The post seemed off topic until you explained it.
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