Oklahoma About to Gut Union Collective Bargaining Rights

[guido911]

Everyone, run to the capitol!!!

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) – The Republican-controlled Oklahoma Senate dealt organized labor another defeat on Tuesday when it voted to repeal a collective bargaining law.

The 29-19 vote means that some of the state's fastest-growing cities no longer will be required to collectively bargain with sanitation workers and other non-uniformed workers.

The measure already passed the Oklahoma House and now goes to Governor Mary Fallin, a Republican, who is expected to sign it into law.

The bill would repeal a law passed in 2004, when the Oklahoma Legislature and the governorship were controlled by Democrats. The law required cities with populations over 35,000 to engage in collective bargaining with non-uniformed workers, though it did not affect Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Norman and Muskogee, which already were engaged in collective bargaining.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110419/us_nm/us_unions_oklahoma

[Teatownclown]

Slave state.....

[cannon_fodder]

I like how these "bold" money savers don't ever have the balls to go after the highest paid unions.  Sanitation workers, teachers, transit...   cops, firefighters?  No way man!

[guido911]

I like how these "bold" money savers don't ever have the balls to go after the highest paid unions.  Sanitation workers, teachers, transit...   cops, firefighters?  No way man!

Gotta start somewhere...

[Ed W]

Believe me, when the sanitation workers walk off the job, a city gets ugly in a hurry.

[nathanm]

Gotta start somewhere...

Either that or it's red meat for the new base. Sort of like abortion restrictions.