[Publib] What Then?

[Backwage at aol.com]

In answer to the question as to what action ALA-APA Council should take at  
annual, I would like to suggest a Resolution condemning the action by the  
governors of Missouri and Indiana, and possibly Maryland and Kentucky.  See  Wall 
Street Journal article below.  I would like to hear from the  Councilors of 
the affected states before proceeding; it would be best if any  Resolution arose 
from that quarter.
 
M. McGrorty
 
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Three Republican Governors Hit Unions
 
Bargaining  Rights Are Rescinded
For State Employees,
One of Big Labor's Last  Strongholds
By JOI  PRECIPHS 
Staff Reporter of THE  WALL STREET JOURNAL
August 11,  2005

Several Republican governors are trying to weaken organized labor  in the one 
place it has remained strong: representing public employees. 
First-term Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt rescinded  collective-bargaining rights 
for state employees this year, undoing an executive  order issued by a 
Democratic predecessor, and has eliminated a state board  overseeing union elections 
for public employees. Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a  former Bush White House 
budget director, overturned an executive order that for  15 years provided 
collective-bargaining rights for that state's public  employees. And Maryland's 
Robert Ehrlich, backed by the state Supreme Court,  suspended a 2% pay increase 
unions had negotiated for state employees with his  predecessor. 
The three governors, following earlier moves by Kentucky's  Republican 
governor, Ernie Fletcher, say that their actions are warranted in an  environment 
where state budgets are just beginning to recover from severe  stress, and that 
public employees' unions waste resources and block government  restructuring 
efforts."

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