When the Supreme Court ruled in June 2018 that government workers couldn't be forced to join a union or pay dues, politicians in pro-labor states vowed to help their union allies maintain their membership.
Recently, Sacramento passed laws expanding the eligibility pool of workers for public and private unions, reining in employers hostile to labor, and committing new taxpayer money to support the pay and benefits of union workers.
Union allies persuaded state legislators earlier this year to pony up $3 billion to help school districts pay for efforts to bail out the troubled California State Teachers' Retirement System.
The Golden State has made extraordinary efforts in support of unions for decades, but that hasn't stopped the decline of the labor movement.
In the early 1990s, for example, the Service Employees International Union persuaded the state legislature to allow local governments to declare independent home health-care workers as state employees if they were paid with Medicaid funds.
Despite such extraordinary assistance from Sacramento the share of state union workers has declined to 14.7 percent from 16.1 percent over the last 20 years, according to unionstats.com.
The portion of government workers belonging to a union is down from 55.8 percent in 2009 to 50.3 percent today, even as the total number of state public employees has reached new highs.
https://www.city-journal.org/california-declining-unions
Recently, Sacramento passed laws expanding the eligibility pool of workers for public and private unions, reining in employers hostile to labor, and committing new taxpayer money to support the pay and benefits of union workers.
Union allies persuaded state legislators earlier this year to pony up $3 billion to help school districts pay for efforts to bail out the troubled California State Teachers' Retirement System.
The Golden State has made extraordinary efforts in support of unions for decades, but that hasn't stopped the decline of the labor movement.
In the early 1990s, for example, the Service Employees International Union persuaded the state legislature to allow local governments to declare independent home health-care workers as state employees if they were paid with Medicaid funds.
Despite such extraordinary assistance from Sacramento the share of state union workers has declined to 14.7 percent from 16.1 percent over the last 20 years, according to unionstats.com.
The portion of government workers belonging to a union is down from 55.8 percent in 2009 to 50.3 percent today, even as the total number of state public employees has reached new highs.
https://www.city-journal.org/california-declining-unions
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