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IFPE RC-29, RC-45 and RC-56 Bargaining Update

 

The IFPE Local 4408 bargaining team met with CMS and Agencies under the Rauner Administration on10/28 and 10/29 to bargain a successor collective bargaining agreement for members in RC-29, RC-45 and RC-56. The IFPE proposed that any contract dispute be taken to arbitration and the union would agree not to strike and the Rauner administration would not lock out state workers. That was rejected  by the Rauner Administration. The following economic proposals were put forth by the Rauner Administration at the last bargaining session. Currently the union is working under a tolling agreement that maintains the current contracts until an impasse is reached in bargaining. No future meetings are scheduled at this time.

 

 

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A Civil Right to Unionize

By Richard Kahlenberg and Moshe Marvit

The New York Times Opinnion Pages - February 29, 2012

FROM the 1940s to the 1970s, organized labor helped build a middle-class democracy in the United States. The postwar period was as successful as it was because of unions, which helped enact progressive social legislation from the Civil Rights Act to Medicare. Since then, union representation of American workers has fallen, in tandem with the percentage of income going to the middle class. Broadly shared prosperity has been replaced by winnertake-all plutocracy.

Corporations will tell you that the American labor movement has declined so significantly — to around 7 percent of the private-sector work force today, from 35 percent of the private sector in the mid-1950s — because unions are obsolete in a global economy, where American workers have to compete against low-wage nonunion workers in other countries. But many vibrant industrial democracies, including Germany, have strong unions despite facing the same pressures from globalization. Read More

 

A Civil Right to Unionize

By Richard Kahlenberg and Moshe Marvit 

The New York Times Opinion
Feb. 29, 2012

From the 1940s to the 1970s, organized labor helped build a middle-class democracy in the United States. The postwar period was as successful as it was because of unions, which helped enact progressive social legislation from the Civil Rights Act to Medicare. Since then, union representation of American workers has fallen, in tandem with the percentage of income going to the middle class. Broadly shared prosperity has been replaced by winner-take-all plutocracy. MORE

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