The NYC Blizzard, Yvonne Johnson and Collective Bargaining for Public Employee Unions

With the rumors swirling that Yvonne Johnson might be running for city council once again, let's remember how she advocated collective bargaining for unions representing public sector employees.

The New York Post is now reporting that there was a deliberate work slowdown among New York sanitation employees in connection with the blizzard earlier this week.

That is the type of thing we would get in Greensboro and North Carolina if we had collective bargaining for public sector unions here.  Perhaps citizens ought to consider that fact when they contemplate Ms. Johnson's possible candidacy.

 

Comments

[Fred Gregory]

Can't help help think that this word foreshadows things to come if public employee unions become ascendant. The country not the song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxEtwtib7MM&feature=fvst

[Steven]

She was just leaving council while the multitude of discrimination suits settle. Could it be? There's lots of them. EEOC vs city of greensboro will be discussed in closed session January 4th. Age discrimination suit. Council should go ahead and discuss the rest of them while they r at it. 2011 gonna expose a lot of city mess. Maybe the employees should be pushing for collective bargaining based on the fact so many have been unhappy enough to file lawsuits. Maybe mike barber is waiting for the suits to end also?

[Karen]

Defendants push for summary judgement failed now the city's problem will be aired out in court. What a showdown: the Feds (EEOC) vs the COG. Do you remember the city of Greensboro ever going to trial on a discrimination suit?

[Steven]

Can the city attorney argue a case in north Carolina courts?

[bubba]

Actually, I'm more worried about the public sector pension liabilities. If the public sector unions have their way, states will be forced into bankruptcy. If Obama is still in office when this happens, look for a massive push for a bailout of these underfunded pensions.

That's when the REAL fun starts.

[Joe Guarino]

Bubba, I am concerned about a major push to bail out certain states themselves. And the public sector union phenomenon would be a major contributory cause.

[Brenda Bowers]

ALL public sector unions should be made illegal. It is against common sense to allow any group of people to hold the public hostage as was shown in New York this week. We had a warning when Reagan took on the Air Traffic controllers Union when they threatened to hold the country hostage. We did not take heed that this was the wave of the future if we allowed these public sector unions to grow. Now we have a bunch of overpaid, over pensioned, over benefited, unable to be fired and sadly under-worked government workers on our backs for more and more and more. BB

[Joe Guarino]

Brenda, I hope we can at least prevent North Carolina from heading down this path.