Sentences with phrase «power of public sector unions»

Much has been said in recent months about the growing power of public sector unions in American government and their coercive effect on sustainable fiscal management, but nowhere in the nation is the power of public sector unions more destructive and unrivaled than in California.

The court had addressed the same issue, the power of public sector unions to confiscate agency fees from non-members, in two of the last three terms.

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With a slim majority of all union workers employed in the public sector, the conservative class war amounts to dragging unionized public employees down to the level of contingent no - benefits workers before they can leverage their power to help private sector workers raise their own workplace standards.

More than seven months after Republican Gov. John Kasich signed it into law, Ohioans have repealed SB 5, the anti-union legislation that would curb collective bargaining rights for 350,000 public workers and gut the political power of public - sector unions.

Labour has become increasingly reliant upon union sources of funding in recent years, and large public sector unions maintain an influential grip on the party's power structure, including having a third of the bloc - votes for the Labour leadership election currently underway.

Educational researcher Gerald Bracey, author of Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered, writes in Stanford magazine that «NCLB aims to shrink the public sector, transfer large sums of public money to the private sector, weaken or destroy two Democratic power bases — the teachers» unions — and provide vouchers to let students attend private schools at public expense.»

In Harris v. Quinn, the Court addressed the power of public - sector unions to force home - health - care workers in Illinois who refused to join a union to pay agency fees.

The book documents the rise of public - sector unionism in an era when private - sector unions are dying; exposes the political fragility of school boards; and, inadvertently, reveals that the power of unions extends well beyond the bargaining table, even to the point of shaping education research itself.

But agency fees are just one of the tools of public - sector union power.

At stake is the power of public - sector unions like Randi Weingarten's American Federation of Teachers (AFT) to collect forced dues — so - called «agency fees» — from non-members forced to accept their representation in at least 25 states.

This reality, that public sector unions operate at the heart of the corporate and financial elite, that they broker, enable and corrupt corporate and financial power, is the tragic irony that is lost on California's electorate.