Kasich to yank union approval - does not want certain workers to unionize

[The Straight Story]

Kasich to yank union approval

Republican Gov.-elect John Kasich drew the promise of a fight from a powerful Ohio union yesterday after saying he plans to rescind two executive orders from outgoing Gov. Ted Strickland that allowed certain workers to unionize.

Strickland issued one executive order six months after taking office in 2007 that allowed independent home-care providers to join a union, then another order in early 2008 giving home child-care providers the same opportunity.

Kasich said yesterday that he still is reviewing all the executive orders that Strickland has signed but that the ones allowing the two groups of workers to organize are "probably toast."

"We'll reverse that," the governor-elect told reporters after a speech at the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation's annual meeting. The two orders say they do not expire unless they are rescinded.

http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/12/04/copy/kasich-to-yank-union-approval.html?adsec=politics&sid=101

[Wounded Bear]

1. Yep, them Repubs is all about the jobs...

Pretty predictable. He was always a weasel.

[Angry Dragon]

2. Since when did the government have control on who can unionize??

[dsc]

3. since forever

I am forbidden to unionize as a teacher in NC.

[Angry Dragon]

5. It just seems illegal to me

I grew up around unions and always thought free association was a given
I must be naive

[Xithras]

6. Oh, the right to associate and form a union is universal.

The problem, of course, is that the government gets to decide which unions get protected. In the bad old days before government protections, companies simply fired everyone who tried to form a union, and refused to recognize them when they did. Laws changed that, requiring employers to recognize lawful unions and protecting lawful organizing activities.

The government still gets to choose what is "lawful".

Nothing stops home healthcare workers from unionizing. If the union isn't recognized, however, it won't do them a lot of good.

[Angry Dragon]

7. Thank you for the information

[mrmpa]

10. No you're not

The North Carolina Education Association (branch of NEA) is alive and well in your state.

[dsc]

11. and called a professional association

not a union here. We are not permitted to collectively bargain.

[mrmpa]

14. mea culpa

NCEA is a professional organization, so is PSEA in Pennsylvania but it's a union. I read the pertinent law in NC that prohibits ALL public employees from organizing. That needs changed (like that might happen in my lifetime).

[dsc]

15. not likely at all to happen

we now have a GOP state assembly and even the Dems weren't going to go there. We can only get those rights at the federal level, as unions are very unpopular here. We are the least unionized state in the nation.

[Recursion]

9. Well, they're still free to "form a union"

But the government won't recognize them in arbitration or extend stoppage protection to them.

[Hello_Kitty]

4. How appropriate he was addressing the Farm Bureau. eom

[NNN0LHI]

8. Ohio voters put in a former Lehman Brothers executive as their governor

:banghead:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. And if I'm not mistaken, he used to work for Faux news...

:mad:

[BrklynLiberal]

13. He's is a repuke. Exactly what one would have expected from him.

Hope somehow the unions can burn Kasich.

[Enthusiast]

16. Imagine that!

Kasich and George W Bush - joined at the hip.