<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div> According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 7.1% of Idaho workers were union members in 2010. This includes teachers, fire & police workers. Idaho's been a "right to work" state for 25 years and has pretty well killed-off labor unions in private industry. Idaho ranks somewhere in the 40's in union membership among the states.<br /><br />Another bill in the legislature will prohibit cities and counties from specifying wages when letting contracts, ie, no preference for unionized contracts, and none of this "living wage" nonsense!</div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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<div><font size="2" face="Verdana">Where are the other unions in the state?
Don't they know they are next?</font></div>
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<h2>Yet another hit on public employees</h2>
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title="Comment on Yet another hit on public employees"
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class="date">Friday, February 18, 2011 </span></p>
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<p>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.”</p>
<p>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?</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Idaho’s latest anti-public employee legislation, now identified as RS20248,
will be carried by Sen. Shirley McKague
(R-Meridian).</p><br><br><br></div></div></div></div><br>
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