The governor — with support from the Democratic leadership of both houses of the Legislature — wants to end collective bargaining over health benefits for New Jersey public sector unions.
Governor Chris Christie was the big winner last night when he and the state’s top Democratic and Republican legislative leaders announced they had reached agreement on legislation that would require teachers, police, firefighters and other government employees to pay more toward their pensions and healthcare.The agreement would effectively strip public employees of the right to bargain over health benefits in their union contracts by having the state unilaterally set health benefit contribution levels through legislation. The unions will undoubtedly challenge any such law in court, but previous court opinions in New Jersey, Wisconsin and other states have upheld the legality of such laws.
Maybe they are on to something.
We should end collective bargaining over health benefits — by instituting a single-payer system, a Medicare-for-All. Seems pretty simple to me.
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Every other advanced industrialized nation has some form or version of universal health care. Everyone is covered and no one goes bankrupt from medical bills in those countries, big capitalist countries like Germany and Japan. The Democratic party has sold out the unions, what else is new. Obama is no big friend to the unions either. Most of the other countries with universal health care also have unionization rates at least twice ours and in some cases many more times unionized than the US. Sweden has a unionization rate of about 70% and Finland's unionization rate is above 80% while the US unionization rate is 11.9%. Thirty years of union busting has produced this sad result and now the anti-union movement has gone into high gear with all these GOP governors and some Democratic governors (in CA, NY). They will not be happy until they have destroyed all the unions and killed off Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
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