Questions tagged [labor-union]
Associations of workers in labor or trade unions.
15
questions
0
votes
2answers
192 views
Can the US President implement restrictions on police unionization
One potential for helping solve the problem of police brutality, as discussed in this question is to curb the power that police unions currently hold.
As it stands, disciplinary measures are subject ...
3
votes
0answers
48 views
Which states have weakened police unions’ collective bargaining power over disciplinary issues?
Matt Yglesias, liberal political columnist for Vox, just tweeted this:
Months into the era of everyone reading White Fragility and posting Black Lives Matter memes and declaring racism a public ...
3
votes
1answer
601 views
What are the pros and cons of having police unions?
This is a follow up question which I asked here. There were a lot of great answers, the consensus seems to be that police unions could be outright dissolved or a new version of unions could form where ...
23
votes
5answers
5k views
Can the police unions be dissolved?
One of the demands of Black Lives Matter (BLM) is to de-fund the police. At the center of it are the police unions, since the contracts are negotiated through the police unions. My question is as ...
1
vote
0answers
51 views
What are the pros and cons of unionized vs non-unionized police force [duplicate]
My question is what are the advantages and disadvantages of unionized vs non-unionized police force.
This was one of the demands which was put forward by the Black Lives Movement. Below is an article ...
0
votes
7answers
526 views
Why aren't labor unions prosecuted under antitrust law?
Here's the definition of cartel from Wikipedia: "A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market."
A labor ...
6
votes
1answer
148 views
How did ending collective bargaining affect health plan costs in Wisconsin after Act 10?
I don't understand the relationship between Wisconsin's Act 10's collective bargaining and health plan costs.
In his book, "Unintimidated", former Governor Scott Walker claims several times that this ...
3
votes
0answers
142 views
Does Cenk Uygur support secret ballots in union elections?
Former Democratic Congressional candidate and liberal political talk show host Cenk Uygur talked to the Huffington Post about the unionization efforts of the employees at his digital media company The ...
3
votes
1answer
85 views
Are there any statistics on union endorsements for presidential candidates?
LA Times mentioned a few, seemingly mostly for Sanders by the big-membership numbers
On Thursday, United Teachers Los Angeles, the second-largest teacher’s union in the U.S., with roughly 34,000 ...
3
votes
2answers
2k views
What can be done to limit the power of trade unions without hurting the right of assembly?
Some claim that trade unions are essential for ensuring workers rights. At the same time, some powerful trade unions are being blamed for using their power to extort extremely high salaries and ...
0
votes
3answers
3k views
The role of price elasticity of demand with the bargaining power of trade unions
My economics textbook says that the more inelastic the demand for a product, the greater the scope for passing cost increases on to consumers and the stronger a trade union's bargaining power will be ...
0
votes
4answers
350 views
What negatives could come with union membership being made a prerequisite for employment?
Let's say a POTUS is elected with a friendly SCOTUS and congress behind him. He hates how America's unions and labour rights have been crushed over the decades, and in response passes a very simple ...
14
votes
6answers
8k views
Why don't unions negotiate members-only contracts in right-to-work states?
How unions are generally formed is that the workers at a company take a vote, and if a majority vote for collective bargaining, then all the workers get represented by a union in negotiations with the ...
3
votes
3answers
4k views
Why can public employees unionize?
I once asked a teacher (NY city public school) whether teacher unions were a good idea. He said: "they are bad for you and good for me".
A trade union increases the power of the employees by allowing ...
4
votes
1answer
453 views
What type of employees are “obliged to join a union as a condition of employment” in New York?
This is an excerpt from an article explaining why Amazon is reconsidering opening its headquarters in New York:
New York is a pro-labor city, whereas Virginia is a right-to-work state where ...
