Thanks to a Supreme Court decision today Harlan Elrich will save $1,000 a year. That is how much that the Sanger High School math teacher estimated he paid in fees annually to a union to which he didn't belong. Now, keeping the money will be his right. The high court’s...
Walters: Legislature's Employees Should Be Allowed to Unionize
In his Jan. 22 CALmatters column, Dan Walters points out that it was the young Gov. Jerry Brown who more than four decades ago "decreed that public employees had the right to join unions and bargain for salaries and other working conditions." Brown's logic, Walters writes, "for extending collective bargaining...
Walters: Legislature's Employees Should Be Allowed to Unionize
In his Jan. 22 CALmatters column, Dan Walters points out that it was the young Gov. Jerry Brown who more than four decades ago "decreed that public employees had the right to join unions and bargain for salaries and other working conditions." Brown's logic, Walters writes, "for extending collective bargaining...