Idaho passes Republican bill to curb union rights

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CHICAGO (Reuters) – The Idaho state legislature approved a bill on Tuesday to strip public school teachers of many of their collective bargaining rights while protesters in six states rallied against Republican efforts to curb union power.

The Idaho bill, which excludes issues like class size and workloads from negotiations for the state's 12,000 unionized teachers, was given final approval by the Republican-led House and is expected to be signed by Republican Governor Butch Otter.

The bill also eliminates teacher tenure, limits the duration of teacher labor contracts to one year and removes seniority as a factor in determining the order of layoffs.

Idaho is one of several U.S. states to take up Republican plans for sweeping restrictions on public sector unions in what has become a growing national debate over labor union power...

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Right ... when it comes to the taxpayers' money, nobody has any right to it but the taxpayers.
 
I think it comes down to the taxpayers want to see government at every level be more responsible with our tax dollars. In government, it should be the taxpayers voices heard and the taxpayers who government answers to; not unions. When you have unions representing state employees, you take power away from the voters and give it to the union.

What happens when you have government employees represented by unions and during hard economic times their contract is up for renewal and they are demanding pay raises as well as keeping their retirement contributions and health care the same when the costs of those have increased as well? You are giving them the power to change policies within the government. To meet or compromise on their demands means money has to be taken from other government services to pay for it or increase taxes. So who really has the power there, the unions or the taxpayers?
 
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