Perhaps the greatest area of ferment and change with respect to labor law is in state and local government. The introduction of limited collective bargaining rights in the federal sector forced a reevaluation of labor policy in many states and municipalities.
Currently 40 states allow some type of collective bargaining among public employees and about 36 states have fairly comprehensive statutes dealing with public sector employee relations. Among these are 22 states which provide for ‘broad-scale’ bargaining in wages, hours and other conditions of employment which are subject to negotiation. A small number of states require only that agency heads ‘meet and confer’ with union officials - bargaining however is not permitted. Only 11 states allow public employees to strike and those usually specify rather limited circumstances.
What a useless and sterile blog this has turned into because the author has sold his soul to the Devil and wants a job in his administration desperately. Michael Alden is a punk coward who once was a fighter for truth. Let me clue you in on something Alden, it is not a step down or shameful to be at your tools. We all took our tests with the goal of coming to work FOR THE MTA in some capacity. Many like you forget that and become inflicted with "THE DISEASE" thinking release time is their right and is what they strive for. You have the disease as well Alden, albeit now in a limited form. When you do head out on full release to serve Local 100's Jobba The Hut you will become completely inflicted. You are a disgusting turncoat Alden. Now why don't you post somemore riveting excepts from the Landrum - Griffin Act or the Taylor Law? Good flaccid stuff.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we could sing the alphabet or post pages from the dictionary. This blog is doomed.
ReplyDeleteA-B-C-D-E-F-H ugh sorry
ReplyDeleteA-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I-K oops, sorry. Let me work on this and I'll get back to you.
This blog is brought to you by the letters B-A-D
and by the number ZERO as in Michael Alden.
You guys must think this blog is a serious threat to whatever aspirations you have.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I have heard this blogs' numbers are still high and haven' t changed at all.
So maybe your tactics are a little off?
To me it's about control. While this blog was in agreement with you, everything was fine.
Now that you feel it is not in agreement with you, it is worthless.
Hardly impartial or democratic.
You do however make a very good point about "the Disease"
But it goes much further than you say: not only does the "disease" infect those on the inside but those on the outside looking in.
Those former Union officers/appointees who feel that their election/appointment was a lifetime position.
2009 when TBOU swept in, it was readily apparent that many of the people who lost elections or were now former appointees, just could not believe that they had to leave 80 West End and go back to their tools.
They could not/would not accept that fact.
To that end in Stations, we had a CTA/safety rep basically stay on her job clandestinely for almost a month before she was found out.
She was hiding running around at night collecting her release time.
Kind of like those Japanese soldiers in the south Pacific that were found years after WW2 ended thinking the war was still being fought.
Believe me, you can't make some of this stuff up.
I'm retired and happy to be as much. In the years I served the union I was a tripartite member, retirees director and UAP administrator. For a time I held two positions at once. Again I'm happy to be retired.
ReplyDeleteFrankly I've agreed with even you on occasion like what Toussaint did with the building. But that's the past. You new folks are looking at a very bleak future given the idea of a condo for a union hall or dragging our decent members into the Wall St. protests just to name a few.
I truly hope and prey local 100 gets a decent, realistic contract. But I see this phony fight going beyond January and into the next election by which time you and brother Alden will be too entrenched in the dirty business that is going on now.
Do me one favor. Show some balls and tell your president to get the UAP address off the local website as a drop-off for the needy It's just plain wrong.