{"id":706,"date":"2010-06-21T16:07:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T16:07:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:07:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:07:46","slug":"newspapers-across-the-country-weigh-in-against-a-federal-police-firefighter-monopoly-bargaining-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/newspapers-across-the-country-weigh-in-against-a-federal-police-firefighter-monopoly-bargaining-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Newspapers Across the Country Weigh in Against a Federal Police & Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nFrom the Washington Post<\/i><\/a> on down, magazines and newspapers across the country are editorializing against the Police and Firefighters Monopoly Bargaining Bill, a Big Labor power grab that would shove thousands of public safety employees into union collectives and usurp state and local laws across the country.\n<\/p>\n

\nHere’s Right to Work President Mark Mix<\/a> in the Richmond Times Dispatch<\/i>:\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n\tWith Reid and his Big Labor allies in Congress in full payback mode, Sen. Jim Webb’s and Sen. Mark Warner’s votes could easily determine the fate of Virginia’s public safety workers.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIf passed, the Police and Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill could turn over police and firefighters of local governments to union-boss control by federal mandate. It overrides the laws of at least 25 states, including states like Virginia that have a complete ban on granting union officials bargaining privileges for public-sector employees.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n


\nThe Virginian-Pilot <\/i>also editorialized against the bill<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n

\n\tAfter retreating from one misguided intrusion into labor law, congressional Democrats are mustering another clumsy campaign to appease their union donors.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tMuch like the failed card-check legislation, the latest initiative is an unnecessary federal interference with employment matters. If adopted, the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act would require state and local governments to engage in collective bargaining with police officers, deputies, firefighters and emergency medical workers over wages and work conditions.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nAs did the <\/a>Charleston Daily Mail<\/a>:<\/i>\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n\tReally, members of Congress are shameless sometimes. Unions are huge contributors to Democratic campaign coffers, and they expect favors in return.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is one that members of Congress should not grant. There is absolutely no justification for the federal government overcalling state-developed law on collective bargaining.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nThe Denver Post<\/a>:<\/i>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tReid’s measure would require that public safety workers be given collective bargaining rights without voter approval. The Colorado Municipal League, which opposes the measure, points out that the federal mandate would instantly affect thousands of employees and Colorado taxpayers at every level.<\/p>\n

\n\tWe agree. Brushing away the current structure not only tramples on local control, it could result in higher budgets at a time tax revenue is down and local governments are struggling.\n\t<\/p>\n

\tThe National League of Cities also opposes this legislation, as it would override the laws of 19 states other than Colorado. NLC lobbyist Neil Bomberg tells us the measure could arrive in the form of an amendment to small-business legislation or as a free-standing bill on the Senate floor next week.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n
\nAnd the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/a>:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\n

\n\tEDITORIAL:
\n\tA sop to Big Labor<\/b><\/span><\/span> \n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n\tSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trying to sneak through Congress the Public Safety Employer-Employee Cooperation Act, a deceptively named sop to Big Labor that would federalize the unionization process for local police, firefighters, corrections officers and first responders.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

\nFinally, here’s a scathing editorial<\/a> from Investors Business Daily<\/i>:\n<\/div>\n

\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile a boon to unions, this law would seriously damage our federalist system by taking away a large measure of local control over police and firefighters unions and lead to higher costs to local governments and taxpayers, costs that neither will be able to affect at the ballot box.\u00a0\n\t<\/div>\n

\t<\/span>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\n<\/span>And some related commentary<\/a> from National Review<\/i>:<\/p>\n

\n\tOrganized labor \u2014 increasingly dominated by public-sector workers \u2014 sees this as compensation for the failure of their card-check effort. The losers in this scenario will be taxpayers.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nWe can only hope that elected officials take note of the near-unanimous level of public opposition to this terrible idea<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nUPDATE: <\/b>Yet more editorials against the Police\/Firefighter Monopoly Bargaining Bill from the San Francisco Examiner<\/a>,<\/i> Watertown Daily Times<\/i><\/a>, Charleston Post and Courier<\/i><\/a>, Newport Daily Press<\/i><\/a>, and the Silver City Sun-News<\/i><\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\nFrom the Washington Post<\/i><\/a> on down, magazines and newspapers across the country are editorializing against the Police and Firefighters Monopoly Bargaining Bill, a Big Labor power grab that would shove thousands of public safety employees into union collectives and usurp state and local laws across the country.\n<\/p>\n

\nHere’s Right to Work President Mark Mix<\/a> in the Richmond Times Dispatch<\/i>:\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n\tWith Reid and his Big Labor allies in Congress in full payback mode, Sen. Jim Webb’s and Sen. 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