"Hoping to stop a bill that would require states and local governments to unionize some employees, ..."The Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, which passed the House in '07 with bipartisan support and remains stuck in Senate committee process, would not require any government to unionize anyone. Put it down to incompetence if you like, but this is exactly the wrong impression the radical corporatists would have you believe, and therefore the Courier is either taken in by the propaganda or complicit in it.
The bill's purpose is ensure the rights of police officers, fire-fighters and other specifically public-safety workers (hence the name) to form and join unions and to bargain collectively. If you don't think they should be allowed to do that, you should rightfully oppose this bill. The rest of us think it's perfectly OK, and that unions are not the threat to this country that the right loves to characterize. But allowing people to unionize, I'm sure every reader must agree, is not anything like the same as requiring employers to create unions.
I think the Courier ought to be getting a ton of letters and comments on this little agitprop move. It's ugly.
That would be the county that stepped in the doo-doo. They are the ones who fear unionizing.
ReplyDeleteThe Supes and county staff have a right to an opinion about the bill. In a news story the Courier doesn't, and mischaracterizing the bill is the doo-doo to which I speak, O mighty Courier-defender-too-scared-to-ID-yourself.
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