[Vision2020] Another anti-labor bill

[Ron Force]

>From the NEA:

Thursday, February 17, 2011 
Yet another hit on public employees
Friday, February 18, 2011  
A bill will be introduced Friday in the Senate State Affairs Committee  that 
would “prohibit public sector collective bargaining, to provide for  public 
employee rights, and to prohibit public employee strikes.”
With the bill’s introduction, Idaho teachers are no longer the only  scapegoats 
in our Statehouse. If such legislation passes, firefighters,  police officers, 
and educators will all lose the ability to negotiate  for fair treatment. Less 
than a decade after 9/11, you have to wonder:  Whatever happened to honoring our 
heroes?
Idaho is riding – and in some ways leading – a national wave of  legislation 
targeting people who serve the public. Similar bills against  public employees 
have been introduced in New Jersey, Ohio, and  Wisconsin, where an estimated 
25,000 people surrounded the state Capitol  in Madison to protest today.
Idaho’s latest anti-public employee legislation, now identified as  RS20248, 
will be carried by Sen. Shirley McKague (R-Meridian).


      
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