Still going 100% “yes” on my personal poll: Would you support a federal labor rule requiring union certification elections at every [non-gov] workplace, every five years?
Denis Drew
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Never understood why charter schools with lower paid, higher turnover teachers were supposed to be superior to public schools.
Now I get it; Tina was talking about the Florida mandatory recert law -- not the proposed national cert law.
Tina, we’re down to 7% union density in private (non-gov) employment. I wouldn’t worry too much about getting lower — I would rather make our opponents worry about unions suddenly jumping up to 50-75%.
It’s about organizing a union — technically certifying/recertifying/decertifying. The idea is to skip the usual organizing effort and go straight to voting. Card check pales compared to universal union vote if you ask me.
I’m not interested in slow — I’m interested in the day after tomorrow .
I’ve never understood why schools with lower paid, higher turnover (mostly non-uinoized) teachers were expected to perform better.
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Why does nobody pick up on SEIU attorney Andrew Strom’s common sense proposal: federal law requiring regularly scheduled union certification at every private workplace? It is not only a simple, one stop shopping answer to today’s uniquely painful in all the world US labor market — but, it should be an automatic sell…
Restore economic and political democracy = restore high labor union density:
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