Service Employees International Union Why Do I Need It

Who contributes more to political causes, labor unions or PACs led by Koch Industries?

By law a PAC can only contribute a total of $5,000 per year to an individual candidate and $15,000 per year to an individual political party.Since labour unions are not PACs, they can, obviously, contribute MORE than a total of $5,000 per year to an individual candidate and $15,000 per year to an individual political party.You might have noticed that there is a rather striking similarity in the percentages of their TOTAL political contributions which those organizations listed by Duncan O’Neil.The (really) ROUGH “Rule of Thumb is to break your political contributions down so that you give approximately between 60% and 70% to the party that you DO want to form the government and approximately between 30% and 40% to the party that you DO NOT want to form the government. When the TOTAL political contribution is large enough, then even 30% of the TOTAL is enough to ensure that the winner “owes you big time”. (this “Rule of Thumb” is also incredibly duplicitous and two-faced.)

Why are there no work unions in Florida?

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2017 the percentage of Florida workers represented by unions was 6.6%. That’s on the low side — the national average for that year was 10%. But there are, in fact, about 1 million active and retired union members and their families in Florida.The Florida AFL-CIO describes the state’s union workers on their website:We are construction workers, health care professionals, classroom teachers, agricultural workers, hotel and restaurant employees, transportation workers, firefighters, law enforcement and correctional officers. Wherever people work in Florida, across a broad range of trades and professions, you will find our members.We work to provide better lives for all workers, members or not, through political and legislative action, grassroots mobilization and education. We also provide a wide range of community services working to build stronger and healthier communities.So if you are looking for a union-represented job, here’s some places to check: a government job, with the city, the state or the federal government (like the post office. Construction work and/or trades like plumber or electrician, most of the airlines flying in and out of Florida, Disney World (which is wall-to-wall union), or Cape Canaveral.If you end up in a non-union workplace, contact an appropriate union and organize!Though Florida bans mandatory financial contributions to the union from all workers covered by a contract, active unions that communicate well with the members and fight hard on their behalf retain their members despite Florida’s so-called “right-to-work” law.

Why should you join a labor union?

Unions have generally improved the pay, conditions and benefits of working everywhere. This has happened in two ways. First, by acting as a bargaining agents and monitors for many workers. Second, by pushing for legislation that favors labor protections. It is usually in your interest to join a union.This does not mean that there aren’t bad apples in unions or among them. In 2005, the Service Employees International Union, which represents 1.5 million public service workers, nurses, hospital staff, nursing home care providers, building services and security guards, along with the Teamsters, left the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, a coalition of 56 unions. The dissenters disagreed on activism and wanted more aggressive efforts to unionize workers—in my opinion, for good reason. The AFL-CIO has also played footsy with the CIA overseas through its American Institute for Free Labor Development, which was involved in the trouble making that provided the excuse for the 1973 coup by the Chilean military, among a number of disreputable actions. Beware union “leaders” who play altogether too much golf with corporate bosses.Nor does it mean that there aren’t groups that pose as unions and really aren’t. For example the National Education Association by and large is essentially in bed with public school administrators and politicians, thus doesn’t really fight for teachers; in contrast, the American Federation of Teachers has consistently gone to the mat on behalf of its members. Given a choice, choose the more combative union; their officials and bureaucrats are looking out for you, not the bosses.

Why can't doctors form unions, but nurses can?

In the United States, under federal labor law, doctors can join or be part of a union under specific, limited situations. Doctors who are employed as interns, residents, or staff physicians, and having no managerial or supervisory duties, may be members of a union; there is no specific rule that excludes doctors from being a member of a collective bargaining unit.However, the vast majority of doctors do have managerial or supervisory duties. Indeed, most of them are technically independent contractors (that is, they do not work for the hospital) and are thus the owner, part owner, or technical officer of a business that employs other medical professionals, giving them both managerial and supervisory duties. Being an owner or officer of the business, and having supervisory or managerial duties are both disqualifying conditions for being a member of a bargaining unit, and thus most doctors will be statutorily excluded from any bargaining unit under federal labor law.Doctors who work for governmental entities are not subject to federal labor law. Doctors who work for state or county health authorities are sometimes eligible to be a member of an appropriate public-sector labor union in that jurisdiction, but that depends entirely on the law that governs public-sector labor union in that state. Most of the doctors who work for the federal government are either in the military (and thus cannot join a union) or work for the VA. There is a union-like entity (it’s not legally a union, but it serves many of the same roles as a union would) for doctors who work for the Veteran’s Administration: NAVAPD.

Have Trump supporters responded to the recent Supreme Court decision in Epic Systems Corp. V. Lewis?

This is great news for businesses. Trial lawyers are a criminal cartel who have perverted a law from the 1800's. Check out the original law. The liars, I mean Lawyers Union needs to be busted up.