{"id":260,"date":"2008-05-12T10:44:41","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T10:44:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:17:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:17:03","slug":"wall-street-journal-exposes-union-power-grab-over-america-s-first-responders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/wall-street-journal-exposes-union-power-grab-over-america-s-first-responders\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street Journal Exposes Union Power Grab Over America&#8217;s First Responders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121055247300183929.html\">editorial<\/a> today opposing the federal imposition of monopoly bargaining on America&#8217;s firefighters, police, and EMTs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe article lists many compelling reasons to be against monopoly bargaining, but never fully lays out the case for opposition to this form of compulsory unionism as a fundamental issue of employees&#8217; individual rights.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe fact is freedom of association should preclude union bosses from being able to force employees to accept their so-called &quot;representation,&quot; thereby stripping individuals of their freedom to contract.  Even worse, union bosses force employees &#8212; union members or not &#8212; to pay money for the &quot;privilege&quot; of losing their right of self-representation.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEven convicted criminals have the right to choose their own representation.  It&#8217;s deplorable that Congress would try to force states to strip first responders of their freedoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe <i>Wall Street Journal<\/i> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121055247300183929.html\">editorial<\/a> today opposing the federal imposition of monopoly bargaining on America&#8217;s firefighters, police, and EMTs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe article lists many compelling reasons to be against monopoly bargaining, but never fully lays out the case for opposition to this form of compulsory unionism as a fundamental issue of employees&#8217; individual rights.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe fact is freedom of association should preclude union bosses from being able to force employees to accept their so-called &quot;representation,&quot; thereby stripping individuals of their freedom to contract.  Even worse, union bosses force employees &#8212; union members or not &#8212; to pay money for the &quot;privilege&quot; of losing their right of self-representation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Wall Street Journal Exposes Union Power Grab Over America&#039;s First Responders - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/blog\/wall-street-journal-exposes-union-power-grab-over-america-s-first-responders\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Wall Street Journal Exposes Union Power Grab Over America&#039;s First Responders - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Wall Street Journal has an editorial today opposing the federal imposition of monopoly bargaining on America&#039;s firefighters, police, and EMTs.   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