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The Idaho state legislature approved a bill on Tuesday to strip public
school teachers of many of their collective bargaining rights while
protesters in five states rallied against Republican efforts to curb union
power.
The Idaho bill, which excludes issues like class size and workloads from
negotiations for the state's 12,000 unionized teachers, was given final
approval by the Republican-led House and is expected to be signed by
Republican Governor Butch Otter.
The bill also eliminates teacher tenure, limits the duration of teacher
labor contracts to one year and removes seniority as a factor in determining
the order of layoffs.
Idaho is one of several U.S. states to take up Republican plans for sweeping
restrictions on public sector unions in what has become a growing national
debate over labor union power.
Republicans say the proposals are needed to rescue recession-battered
budgets from deficits, but Democrats and union supporters say they are an
attack on organized labor that could linger as an issue into the 2012
presidential elections.
Most national attention has focused on the stalemate in Wisconsin over
Republican Governor Scott Walker's proposal to curb union rights, which
sparked large protests in the capital Madison.
Wisconsin Senate Democrats have fled the state to block a vote on Walker's
proposal, but e-mails released on Tuesday showed Walker has indicated he may
be willing to compromise on elements of his plan.
The e-mails, released following a Freedom of Information Act request from
the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper, show Senate Democrats and a senior
Walker aide discussed some flexibility on issues such as his demand for
annual votes to keep unions in existence.
Protests against Walker's plan continued in Madison on Tuesday. Similar
Republican plans to curb public union rights sparked new protests in Indiana
, Ohio, Michigan and Iowa.
DEATH OF THE MIDDLE CLASS
In Indianapolis, where most Indiana House Democrats remain out of state to
block a vote on a bill they say is anti-worker, union protesters staged a
mock "funeral" for the middle class with a New Orleans-style musical
procession in honor of Mardi Gras.
In Ohio, Republican Governor John Kasich touted a plan that passed the state
Senate last week to curb collective bargaining rights of public employees
and ban them from going on strike.
In his "State of the State" speech, Kasich said the bill, which still must
be passed by the Ohio House, was necessary to give local governments more
flexibility in their budgets.
"Frankly, folks, the provisions of collective bargaining reform are examples
of what we want to do to allow people to control their costs," said Kasich,
setting off cat-calls from the gallery in the legislative chamber.
Pro-union demonstrators packed the Capitol rotunda after the speech,
shouting, "Kill the bill."
In Michigan's state capital Lansing, hundreds of pro-union protesters jammed
the rotunda and gathered outside the Capitol to oppose a bill to give
emergency authority to break labor contracts to revive failing schools and
cities. The state's largest school district of Detroit is under emergency
management.
The Michigan House approved the measure in February. A final vote in the
Senate, where Republicans hold a 26-12 majority, is expected on Wednesday.
In Iowa, hundreds of union workers crowded the state House chamber to
protest a bill that would prevent negotiations on healthcare benefits for
government workers and forbid union workers from negotiating layoff
schedules.
The measure will be debated in the Republican-led Iowa House on Wednesday.
It is expected to run into trouble in the Democratic-majority state Senate. |
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