Three GOP Governors Attack Unions...
The Wall Street Journal:
Several Republican governors are trying to weaken organized labor in the one place it has remained strong: representing public employees.
First-term Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt rescinded collective-bargaining rights for state employees this year, undoing an executive order issued by a Democratic predecessor, and has eliminated a state board overseeing union elections for public employees. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a former Bush White House budget director, overturned an executive order that for 15 years provided collective-bargaining rights for that state's public employees. And Maryland's Robert Ehrlich, backed by the state Supreme Court, suspended a 2% pay increase unions had negotiated for state employees with his predecessor.










First Posted: 08-11-05 11:22 AM | Updated: 03-28-08 02:43 AM