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Labor Seeks to Organize State and Local Government Workers
With support and time apparently waning for some of labor's national agenda, they have renewed their push to organize more workers before the fall election, this time in the public sector and again with the assistance of the U.S. Congress.
In recent weeks, labor has attempted to attach the "Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act" to an unrelated piece of legislation in hopes of passing it - with little public notice. While the latest attempt was unsuccessful, they have not given up.
In just the past few days, the House leadership has polled its members to determine their interest in attaching this legislation - again - to yet another unrelated bill and passing it this week.
Their own summary says "this bill guarantees collective bargaining rights for the nation's first responders employed by states and localities. Under the language, states would administer and enforce their own labor laws, while the Federal Labor Relations Authority would step in only where such laws do not exist or do not meet minimum standards....."
Put another way, this national effort would gut Virginia's business-backed state law prohibiting such activity by permitting some state and local government "unions" to collectively bargain for wages and benefits.
In a recent letter to Virginia's congressional delegation, Virginia Chamber Chairman Clint Morse asked all to work to defeat this ill advised effort.
We encourage you to contact your federal House and Senate members NOW and ask that they STOP this effort. A "NO" vote will not be sufficient.
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