Public-sector

West Virginia Teachers Are About to Stage a Statewide Strike. Here’s Why.

Leave a Comment / Teachers, Uncategorized / By max cyril

Teachers and service personnel across West Virginia are planning to strike on Feb. 22 and 23 in an effort to boost pay and lower their increasing healthcare costs. It will be the first statewide walkout in nearly 30 years. The strike was announced by the American Federation of Teachers-West Virginia and the West Virginia Education Association (WVEA) …

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When the Parades Are Over, Who Stands With Unions?

The Entire Public Sector Is About to Be Put on Trial

Leave a Comment / AFSCME, Public Workers / By max cyril

Within the next year, the Supreme Court is likely to rule on the latest existential threat to workers and their unions: Janus v. AFSCME. Like last year’s Friedrichs v. CTA—a bullet dodged with Justice Antonin Scalia’s unexpected death—the Janus case is a blatant attack on working people by right-wing, moneyed special interests who want to take away workers’ freedom …

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Women Account for 72 Percent of the Decline In Union Membership from 2011 to 2012

Leave a Comment / discrimination, economy, unemployment, Workplace Conditions, workplace issues / By max cyril

Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics released new data on union membership for 2012. We did some number-crunching which shows that while unions are really important to women, their membership is dropping. What’s going on with women and unions? Between 2011 and 2012 the number of union members dropped by 398,000. Women were less than …

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Federal Judge Rules Yet Another Florida Drug-Testing Program Unconstitutional

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Welfare applicants aren’t the only people the courts have forced the state of Florida to stop drug testing. A federal court ruled on Thursday that Gov. Rick Scott also doesn’t get to randomly drug test 80,000 state workers. Judge Ungaro said Mr. Scott had overreached in his executive order because there was no evidence of …

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Why Is the Recovery So Feeble? Ask (Laid-Off) Public-Sector Workers

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The slashing of public-sector jobs—concentrated in states Republicans took control in 2010—is accounting for a major slowing of the nation’s economic recovery. In a recent report issued by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), economist Josh Bivens calculated that the U.S. has lost 584,000 government jobs during the recovery, an “unprecedented drag.” Bivens argues that if America had …

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