Everyone, run to the capitol!!!
QuoteOKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – The Republican-controlled Oklahoma Senate dealt organized labor another defeat on Tuesday when it voted to repeal a collective bargaining law.
The 29-19 vote means that some of the state's fastest-growing cities no longer will be required to collectively bargain with sanitation workers and other non-uniformed workers.
The measure already passed the Oklahoma House and now goes to Governor Mary Fallin, a Republican, who is expected to sign it into law.
The bill would repeal a law passed in 2004, when the Oklahoma Legislature and the governorship were controlled by Democrats. The law required cities with populations over 35,000 to engage in collective bargaining with non-uniformed workers, though it did not affect Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Norman and Muskogee, which already were engaged in collective bargaining.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110419/us_nm/us_unions_oklahoma
Slave state.....
I like how these "bold" money savers don't ever have the balls to go after the highest paid unions. Sanitation workers, teachers, transit... cops, firefighters? No way man!
Quote from: cannon_fodder on April 19, 2011, 08:13:15 PM
I like how these "bold" money savers don't ever have the balls to go after the highest paid unions. Sanitation workers, teachers, transit... cops, firefighters? No way man!
Gotta start somewhere... ;)
Believe me, when the sanitation workers walk off the job, a city gets ugly in a hurry.
Quote from: guido911 on April 19, 2011, 08:16:39 PM
Gotta start somewhere... ;)
Either that or it's red meat for the new base. Sort of like abortion restrictions.