Professional organizations of teachers, principals, and superintendents
focus on collective bargaining and advocacy, not on setting evidence - based professional standards for educators.
When
reporting on collective bargaining, well - meaning reporters will toss around pay increase numbers that the union is demanding versus what the employer is willing to offer.
Madison, Wisconsin (CNN)- Wisconsin's Republican - led state Senate passed Gov. Scott Walker's proposed restrictions
on collective bargaining for public employees Wednesday, getting around a Democratic walkout by stripping financial provisions from the bill.
They may counsel union or management clients
on collective bargaining agreements, grievance and arbitration processes, contract administration issues, and strikes and work stoppages.
Now, with Republican governors like Scott Walker in Wisconsin and John Kasich in Ohio publicly
taking on collective bargaining for public school teachers, replacing strict salary schedules with merit pay, and introducing value - added measures into decisions about salaries and tenure, events have caught up to his message.
Robin represents and advises public sector employers in the areas of labor and employment law, with
emphasis on collective bargaining and litigation under the Public Employees Relations Act.
I'm getting ready to publish a brief guide for Colorado school boards
on collective bargaining issues ripe for reform — opportunities to promote fairness and individual rights, and to save taxpayer dollars.
Beginning in the 1960s, the AFT emerged as a labor union focused
on collective bargaining with management; the NEA quickly followed suit, and the two unions competed to organize America's teachers in a framework that posited teachers as individual laborers.
That's a tough truth, but, given what we're up against with the Harper government's flat - out assault
on the collective bargaining process and indeed on unions themselves, it needs to be bluntly stated.
But public employees are rightfully worried about surprise moves, noting that Walker didn't
campaign on collective bargaining changes before introducing them in the Legislature.
Indeed, it's consistent with much recent
work on collective bargaining (including the 2008 study The Leadership Limbo that I authored with Coby Loup), which points out that contracts are frequently less constricting than reputed — but that state and federal requirements, along with timidity and a lack of imagination on the part of district leaders, have contributed to a culture of management passivity.
In Wisconsin, the MacIver Institute's «news crew» laid the groundwork for Governor Walker's assault
on collective bargaining by creating news reports denouncing protesters and promoting the governor.
Out - Walkering Walker, Moe would have the entire country adopt the
ban on collective bargaining for public employees found in just seven states — most of them in the former Confederacy.
Daniel P. Bordoni counsels clients on labor law issues, focusing his
practice on collective bargaining and matters arising under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
She also specializes in collective redundancy and individual dismissal as well as acting for them in the related litigation proceedings and in legal
advice on collective bargaining and agreements.
At first instance, accepting the submissions of the SoS, Keith J dismissed the PDAU's claim for a declaration of incompatibility in respect of the UK's legislative
scheme on collective bargaining.
What's also very interesting at least from the sports law perspective is that there is a
clause on the Collective Bargaining Agreement that says that if essentially 14 teams collude to impact a player, like Colin Kaepernick, then the CBA, the Collective Bargaining Agreement can be declared void making everybody essentially a free agent.
New Jersey State AFL - CIO President Charles Wowkanec called Christie's budget and his proposed 33 - bill «toolkit» to «rein in» local government costs «an unprecedented
attack on collective bargaining and workers.»
Expect to see the candidates applaud governors in New Jersey, Wisconsin, and Ohio, who
took on collective bargaining rights and insisted that money is best used to reward good teaching for the children's sake.
Thousands of protesters, including many Madison teachers, rally at the Capitol in Madison on Feb. 16 against Gov. Scott Walker's proposed limits
on collective bargaining for most public workers.
His comment earlier this year that Connecticut needs a «Wisconsin moment» was widely seen as a signal that he intends to take
on collective bargaining rights, as Wisconsin's Republican Gov. Scott Walker has done.
George Gresham, president of 1199SEIU, said Trump has «declared war on worker protections,» referring to cuts to health care coverage and attacks
on collective bargaining.
D'Andrea's article, «Limits
on Collective Bargaining: Wisconsin succeeds in cutting costs,» appears in the Fall 2013 issue Ed Next.
Attacks
on collective bargaining and the role of the union, the nation's changing demographics, education reform efforts, and an explosion in the use of education technology and online learning have radically changed the role of educators and the system of educating our nation's students.
Soglin: But we also drew a clear line between ideas that will really impact kids in a positive way, that will ensure that every child has a highly effective teacher, versus attacks
on collective bargaining.
«Section 4.5's restrictions
on collective bargaining have meant that, for decades, we've been hamstrung from forcing CPS to remedy critical problems — including deplorable conditions in our schools that can be directly tied to Emanuel's failed $ 800 million privatization of facilities maintenance.