To Be Announced...

Beat 'em...

Scaled back. I like that. I think this will turn out to be the worst decision that unions and Democrats have made yet. Regardless of how it can be explained away, the public perception will be: "What unions can't do for themselves, they'll get lawmakers to do for them."

Leaders scale back 'fair share' bill

...A bill endorsed Wednesday by the Senate Labor and Business Relations Committee would limit the "fair share" proposal to public employers and their workers - including schoolteachers and city, county and state employees.

...The bill would add union service fees to the list of items that unions representing public employees can negotiate with state officials, school boards, city councils, county boards of supervisors and other local governments.

Fees could be assessed to nonunion workers for union costs pertaining to such things as collective bargaining and representation of employees in a grievance matter.

Fees made part of a negotiated contract would be automatically deducted from nonunion employees' paychecks. A worker could not refuse to pay the fees, but would have the right to challenge the amount.

Sarcasm: I'm sure they'll be as efficient in responding to those challenges as they are to the challenges involving Beck decision cases...the ones where union members challenge political donations to causes and candidates they don't agree with.

In the competitive nursing field, employees at public hospitals who don't want to pay the fees could easily move to private hospitals, Greg Boattenhamer, a representative of the Iowa Hospital Association, told lawmakers.

Let them eat cake?

It's not exactly an inspiring message for future union organization efforts, is it? If you don't want to join the union, fine...but you'll still pay for it out of your check. Nice.

Stephani Gatica, a nurse practitioner at Broadlawns Medical Center, is in the process of filing a petition with the Public Employment Relations Board to remove nurse practitioners from the union at Broadlawns.

"I think it is outrageous they're trying to force me to join something I don't want to join and don't agree with. Why would I want to pay money for something I don't agree with?"

Supporters of the legislation insist they are just trying to bring fairness to the workplace.

Fairness by force. Karl would be proud.

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