Even some of his most loyal followers say that he has never fully explained to Wisconsinites why ending collective bargaining for union benefits was a fiscal necessity.
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The union shut it down because it did weaken tenure and therefore collective bargaining and the union in general.
Small- and mid-market owners may well figure the only path to doing it goes through the union bargaining table.
After union bargaining, the agencies still need to give employees their official 30 days notice of impending furloughs, realistically pushing most furloughs off until April.
The original postwar Social Compact was sustained by a combination of economic growth, union bargaining power, government policies and enforcement, and organizational practices that reinforced wage norms based on productivity.
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With the NFL allowed to impose its restraints through an impasse in bargaining and seemingly free to impose their system on the players as long as the players had a collective bargaining agent (union), Upshaw decided to have the players become antitrust litigants rather than union members.
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And, unlike many of them, he appears positively to relish the marathon bargaining sessions that characterise Union summits.
By repealing the mandatory good faith bargaining and exclusive representation restrictions, businesses would no longer be required to recognize majority supported unions, bargain on specific topics, and cover a complete bargaining unit with a union contract.
The players had to decertify as a union for collective bargaining purposes in order to be able to seek relief in the courts under the antitrust laws.
Dr. ZULLO: Although there's some advantage to being a union which specializes in an industry, the process of forming a union and then bargaining and getting a decent contract, there's quite a few sort of universal concepts that apply across all different occupation types.
The two-hour long hearing had the vibe, at least through the accounts of those in attendance, of Congress attempting to shame the NFLPA for being reluctant to implement testing pursuant to the most recently signed collective bargaining agreement and encouraging the union to speed up the process.
Under the NLRA, a union supported by a majority of employees is able to represent all the employees in a bargaining unit regardless of their support of the union.
Mr Clarke said the retailer also denied staff the right to union representation and collective bargaining.
It also stops short of legislating a specific evaluation system, which preserves the union's collective bargaining rights.
That, and the expiration of the union's collective bargaining agreement with a coalition of bus companies in December, prompted the walkout.
The resulting prison-building boom, and rapacious bargaining by the prison-guards union, meant that state penitentiaries became the fastest-growing major cost in the state budget.
The problem with this passivity is that union-negotiated collective-bargaining agreements are often the biggest barrier to enacting these education reforms.
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In an environment where they are essentially independent contractors, many players would likely lose significant benefits and other protections previously provided on a collective basis as part of the union-negotiated collective-bargaining agreement.
Union sources said that despite Bush's opposition to the Justice Department's misconduct investigations, the governor fared poorly on several issues of even greater importance to the union--including collective bargaining rights for law enforcement personnel.
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Under this vision, players and fans would have none of the protections or benefits that only a union (through a collective-bargaining agreement) can deliver.
"I would love to see the players have a union and we do a collective bargaining agreement, like all the other sports, " he said.
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Mr. Clement said the collective-bargaining process, which includes the players' union and all NFL teams combining to make the rules, is ultimately responsible for the players' safety.
The response of the NFL was to file a charge with National Labor Relations Board arguing that the NFLPA has not negotiated with the league in good faith and claim the union wants to evade its collective bargaining obligations so it can use antitrust litigation to enjoin a lawful lockout.
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The U.S. auto industry and the UAW union have begun negotiating their new collective bargaining agreements.
The nature of their work means the union does not get involved in collective bargaining.
The high court in past cases has ruled nonunion public sector workers cannot be forced to pay for union activities not directly related to collective bargaining.
In the decision Thursday, Second Circuit Judge Jose Cabranes held that the union representing the City College of New York could not force David Seidemann to pay dues for "ideological" activity not related to the union's core job of collective bargaining.
When the workers of a particular plant want a union it is because they can have collective bargaining power, better working conditions among other things in their own plant.
It's out of sight, in boardrooms and over telephones, as Mr. Goodell and league owners are trying to get the players union to agree to a new collective-bargaining agreement.
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Rather than address the challenge of improving the collective-bargaining agreement for the benefit of the game, the union-financed lawsuit attacks virtually every aspect of the current system including the draft, the salary cap and free-agency rules, which collectively have been responsible for the quality and popularity of the game for nearly two decades.
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