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PETRUS

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8. I have worries about that.

Reply to Starry Messenger (Reply #3)

Tue Jun 30, 2015, 04:52 PM

Jun 2015

What's to stop employers from be at least as generous with non-union workers long enough to erode support and get the union decertified? I tend to side with people who frame this as a freedom of contract issue. The standard response to someone objecting to an employer's conditions is to go look for work somewhere else. I don't see why that shouldn't apply to conditions negotiated by employees, too. I.e., if you don't want to join a union, find work in a non-union shop.

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California teacher's Supreme Court case may determine future of public employee unions [View all] Starry Messenger Jun 2015 OP

this only makes any kind of sense if they also repeal the duty of fair representation.... mike_c Jun 2015 #1

I am starting to agree. Starry Messenger Jun 2015 #3

I lost patience a long time ago.... mike_c Jun 2015 #5

I had an eye-opening experience this spring Starry Messenger Jun 2015 #6

I have worries about that. PETRUS Jun 2015 #8

That's a definite concern too. Starry Messenger Jun 2015 #9

Dont think they can? MichMan Jun 2015 #7

If they don't want to join the union they should upaloopa Jun 2015 #2

Sadly, we are still compelled at this time to represent them. Starry Messenger Jun 2015 #4