MO Gov. vetoes Paycheck Deception Bill

[Sherman A1]

Missouri labor leaders were swift to laud Gov. Jay Nixon within minutes after he announced Tuesday that he had vetoed SB29, a bill that would have barred public employers – including school boards and the city of St. Louis – from deducting union dues from members’ paychecks without annual authorization.

The bill would have required a separate annual authorization before dues money could be spent on political activities.

Nixon noted in his veto that the members already can change their authorizations at any time, and said that SB29 was actually about “singling out union dues…for no beneficial purpose.”

The governor, a lawyer and former attorney general, also questioned the constitutionality of the measure’s provision that exempted police, firefighters and other first-responders. Nixon wrote that the exemptions amounted to “disparate treatment to similarly situated people,’’ which he said violated the U.S. Constitution’s equal-protection clause.

https://www.stlbeacon.org/#!/content/31587/paycheck_sb29_veto_062513

[Skeeter Barnes]

1. This is big for Unions. They have to be able to get dues money to survive.

It's a tactic that the owners of our government, the Chamber of Commerce, have been trying to implement all over the country. They've won a few times in other states with this. Glad to see MO putting a stop to it.

[Sherman A1]

3. IT's been vetoed, but that veto

may be overridden by the Legislature. It certainly will be in the House, the Senate override hangs on one vote.

[Skeeter Barnes]

4. Drat!

[Skeeter Barnes]

2. Weingarten rights for govt. workers also under assault

Texas Supreme Court: Police, Firefighters, Teachers Have No Right to Union Representation in Disciplinary Meetings

Moeller: “The court majority respects neither clearly stated workplace rights nor common concepts of justice and fairness.”

Texas AFL-CIO President Becky Moeller issued the following statement on the Texas Supreme Court’s ruling today in City of Round Rock v. Rodriguez:

“A Texas Supreme Court majority holds that police, firefighters, teachers and other public employees in Texas have no right to union representation when they are called into a meeting that could result in disciplinary action.”

“Misreading Texas labor law and history through an anti-union prism, the court incredibly found that a provision in the Labor Code granting public employees the ability ‘to protect themselves in their personal labor’ does not confer a right to union representation in a meeting that could lead to dismissal or even criminal charges.”

http://www.texasaflcio.org/index.cfm?action=article&articleID=1897df66-6369-40a4-993d-68307e846c35

They want to make it so the Union can't provide the representation they are paid to provide to their members.

EMPLOYEE'S RIGHT TO UNION REPRESENTATION

The right of employees to have union representation at investigatory interviews was announced by the U.S. Supreme Court in a 1975 case (NLRB vs. Weingarten, Inc. 420 U.S. 251, 88 LRRM 2689). These rights have become known as the Weingarten rights.

Employees have Weingarten rights only during investigatory interviews. An investigatory interview occurs when a supervisor questions an employee to obtain information which could be used as a basis for discipline or asks an employee to defend his or her conduct.

http://clear.uhwo.hawaii.edu/wein.html

[Sherman A1]

5. The attack on the rights working people

courtesy of ALEC and their playmates is pretty much across the board and coming from every angle the robber barons can find.