Sentences with phrase «union power»

If the future holds a solution to the problem of union power, it will probably develop as a by - product of the school - choice movement.

In practice, this legislation would promote fairness and transparency with all organizations and provide a check on union power by ensuring that tax dollars are not used for partisan politics.

Although union power in school - board elections would seem to have vast consequences for public education, it is a subject that is rarely studied.

At the same time, you're harmed by the federal mandate that gives unions the power of monopoly (a.k.a. «collective») bargaining.

Right to work breaks this cycle of government - aided monopoly union power for the larger economic good.

And unions don't like dismissing ineffective teachers for the very simple reason that union power rests on union commitment and capacity to defend every teacher from losing his or her job.

This study of candidates, however, also provides evidence for a second important theme about union power: namely, that the unions operate under constraints that limit what they can achieve.

«Exclusive representation» (more accurately, monopoly bargaining) privileges are the source of compulsory union power.

Is there any hope that the problem of union power can somehow be overcome?

Education reform ideas pushed by both political parties have put a strong focus on teacher performance and curbing union power like never before.

With the upcoming elections for some of the major European Union powers, any major shocks could cause a flight back to the safe haven of U.S. Treasuries,» says Robinson, noting that as yields on Treasury bonds, bills and notes increase, so do interest rates.

But even Terry Moe and John Chubb who in their book, Liberating Learning, are as insistent on teacher union power as Andy, do not think unions are such powerful Luddites they can block new technologies forever.

His new book is «Government Against Itself: Public Union Power and Its Consequences» (Oxford).

Michigan just became a «right - to - work» state, which dramatically reduces union power.

Several states have ruled that public unions must require non-union employees to pay dues because they benefit from union powers.

This threat was supposed to make privatization «democratically» approved — followed by breaking union power and lowering wages («internal devaluation»).

«Europe, public spending, union power grabs... Labour have plenty of splits of their own Main Ed Miliband becomes Prime Minister and detests being Francois Hollande»

Realizing that this display of raw union power was not in keeping with its persona as a reform - minded partner, always willing to collaborate with parents, communities and other stakeholders, AFT pulled the pdf from its website shortly after the Biddle piece was posted and started to play defense... sort of.

It is the latest successful legislative push targeting union power following a Republican sweep of statehouses in 2010, and if Gov. Mitch Daniels signs the bill as expected it will make Indiana the first Rust Belt state to ban contracts that require workers to pay mandatory union fees for representation.

So, you must try to parse out declining union power, falling minimum wages, weak macroeconomies (the absence of full employment), and more, from the skill - demand part of the story.

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«Collective bargaining is the bedrock of union well - being,» Moe notes, so to constrain collective bargaining is to weaken union power.

«The nationalized industries,» argued Lawson, «so far from improving industrial relations, proved the source of the biggest threat to industrial peace — doubtless because of the combination of centralized union power and recourse to the bottomless public purse.»

From the dying days of the Callaghan government, the Institute proved to be a useful springboard for assaults upon union power, the housing system, the «quango - cracy» and state ownership of industry.

Since the decline of trade union power under Reagan and Thatcher in the late 70s and 80s, wages have not risen with productivity.

The failure of Labour's «In Place of Strife» labour market reform proposals in the late 1960s had led to a situation where union power was increasingly stifling markets by keeping wages high.

The cartoonist Peter Shrank notably depicted Blair as Antony when the then Labour leader was seeking to dilute trade union power early on during his time at the top of the party.

The report suggested additional measures to curb union powers including a requirement for a minimum of 40 % of a unionised workforce to vote in favour of strike action for it to go ahead.

Thatcher was an attractive woman with steely leadership qualities who seemed bent on destroyingconsensual politics, smashing union power and revitalising Britain's military glory.

Republican Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan is close to a «Faustian pact» with Democratic Gov. Cuomo to raise the state's minimum wage to a national high of $ 15 an hour — boosting union power and possibly costing New York hundreds of thousands of jobs, The Post has learned.

The anti-tax Club for Growth has endorsed Neumann in Wisconsin, and Fitzgerald played a major role in last year's legislative efforts to gut public employee union power.

Whelan, Gordon Brown's spin doctor in the 1990s and part of the media campaign behind Labour's 1997 victory, said union power had undoubtedly swung the vote for the younger Miliband brother.

Over time, union power dwindled, not because the bargaining structure was reformed, but because deregulation and greater foreign competition left labor fewer monopoly profits to extract in key industries such as automobile and steel.

It surely doesn't mean that union power which hobbles a school's ability to educate children — with regressive tenure and seniority rules, for example — doesn't need to be checked.

Admittedly, online learning is spreading more rapidly within the higher educational system than it is among high schools, and that could be due in part to weaker union power and greater competitiveness among colleges and universities.

He also argued that Republican efforts to curtail union power in the states are unlikely to make much headway.

Wall Street as a whole does pretty well under the current arrangement, because they only have to deal with a few union power brokers in order to access a huge market.

The Florida union ranked low in part because the state, with its right - to - work law, limits union power.

Union chiefs want to coerce workers to join and pay dues that they then funnel to politicians who protect union power.

One can't walk away from Moe's arguments doubting union power.

Caputo - Pearl, 43, a high school social studies teacher, organized a slate of candidates, called Union Power, that swept the union's other citywide offices.

Palm Lane Elementary School in Anaheim, a failing school for at least the past decade, has become a battleground in the war against union power and its unconstrained efforts to retain absolute control over public education.

«We have engaged in deep conversations with the [Union Power] slate, and with Alex personally,» she said.

In the end, gutting union power allowed Walker to save the state about $ 3 billion over his first term.