Reforming Labor Regulations
Balance Union Control. Protect Worker Freedom.
Government employees perform a public service for the people of every state. They’re not obligated to serve unions, too.
Commonsense, pro-worker reforms would provide checks and balances to union monopolies and improve the lives of state employees, making your state an even better place to live, work, and raise a family.
LABOR SOLUTIONS FOR AMERICA’S ECONOMY AND PUBLIC WORKFORCE
LABOR SOLUTIONS FOR AMERICA’S ECONOMY AND PUBLIC WORKFORCE
- Enact paycheck protection to empower public employees to decide for themselves whether union membership is in their best interest. Government should not be a bill collector for forced union dues.
- Require annual recertification elections for unions to ensure that public employees have a voice in their workplace, allowing them to keep or remove their union if a majority of members are unsatisfied with the representation.
- Preempt local labor regulations to allow for fair, open, and reasonable policies across the state—instead of workers having to be at the mercy of a regulatory patchwork in different cities and counties.
- Allow non-union teachers to negotiate salary directly with their public school district to decouple them from union control over their salary and benefits. This is an issue of basic fairness to teachers who do not pay union dues.
- Eliminate paid time off (PTO) for union business to help ensure that taxpayer dollars aren’t being used to subsidize public employees engaging in partisan political activities on behalf of their union.
- Reduce government headcount by eliminating vacant full-time positions that have gone unfilled for 90 days. This would save taxpayer dollars, cut state bureaucracy, and free up revenue for budget priorities.
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Why States Should Require Annual Union Recertification
Union membership has been on the decline for decades. Today, just 10 percent of workers are in a union, compared to 20 percent in 1983.
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Florida lawmakers must embrace pro-worker reforms
By embracing the commonsense pro-worker reforms in Paycheck Protection, lawmakers would measurably improve the lives of state employees while making Florida an even better place to live, work and raise a family.
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