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Card Check Comes to UW

Nice. 

Research assistants at UW System campuses would form unions by signing authorization cards rather than using secret ballots under a provision in the new state budget.

This was a change wanted by the Teaching Assistants’ Association, a UW-Madison graduate workers union, said Peter Rickman, president of the group.

“The notion of free and fair elections with secret ballots is a myth,” Rickman said.

Um, perhaps Rickman should go to Iran or Eastern Europe and tell them that secret ballots are a bad idea.

Posted by Owen at 1842 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

1. Um, perhaps Rickman should go to Iran or Eastern Europe and tell them that secret ballots are a bad idea.

   Or he could be a PR guy for someone like Stalin.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 01, 2009 at 2058 hrs
   
   
   

2. I was told by someone who has been a labor arbitrator with the WERC for over 30 years that it would be good thing if all the US campus locations were under one unbrella union, only had one contract to negotiate rather than having to deal with each location (the state technical colleges have contracts for each location).  He said that WERC has been budgeted 2 FTE’s in this budget for this.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 02, 2009 at 1303 hrs
   
   
   

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