{"id":2197184,"date":"2024-03-12T08:19:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T12:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/34-of-public-workers-pay-union-dues-report\/"},"modified":"2024-03-12T08:19:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T12:19:03","slug":"34-of-public-workers-pay-union-dues-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/34-of-public-workers-pay-union-dues-report\/","title":{"rendered":"34% of public workers pay union dues: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F34-of-public-workers-pay-union-dues-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2197184&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>(The Center Square) \u2014 Though not all data is publicly available, Pennsylvania is one of the most union-dense states in America for government workers.<\/p>\n<p> A recent analysis by the Commonwealth Foundation found that Pennsylvania has\u00a034% of its public workers paying union dues. Of all the public workers represented by a union, 74% of them pay union dues.<\/p>\n<p> Unsurprisingly, liberal-leaning states tend to be more union-friendly, which can influence broader policy decisions.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cSome state capitals are even more beholden to public-sector union executives than we thought,\u201d said report co-author and Commonwealth Foundation Senior Fellow for Labor Policy David Osborne.\u201cUnfortunately, these union executives use their power in state government to increase their own political celebrity at the expense of taxpayers and sometimes workers themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Public-sector unions, Osborne and co-author Andrew Holman argue, differ from private-sector unions in their influence.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cOrganizing membership to advance a union\u2019s political objectives is arguably easier for government unions than private sector unions,\u201d they noted in a report presentation on Monday. \u201cCollective bargaining gives government unions direct and exclusive access to the public policymaking process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> The report analyzed 26 states, though California, Illinois, and Missouri were excluded due to states limiting what information was available to the public. Seventeen states, most of them in the South, were excluded because they have no collective bargaining in state government.<\/p>\n<p> New York has the largest union-represented workforce in state government with 219,000 workers, followed by Florida with 67,000 state workers and Pennsylvania with 62,000. North Dakota has the fewest public-sector union workers with 90, followed by Wisconsin with 357 and Nevada with 4,400.<\/p>\n<p> Nine states have fewer than 10,000 union-eligible employees in their public workforce.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Pennsylvania is also second in dues-paying state government workers: 46,100, again behind New York (174,000) but ahead of New Jersey (45,700).<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0How those figures change may depend as much on political choices as on economic developments.<\/p>\n<p> \u00a0\u201cThe future of union membership really depends on how much public sector union executives can accomplish in state houses to help them organize, recruit, and retain new members,\u201d Osbourne said. \u201cPennsylvania\u2019s unions are pushing for extraordinary measures, including HB 950, which would allow any recruiting or retention measures in collective bargaining agreements trump state law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> HB 950, narrowly passed in the House in May, has since sat in the Senate with no action taken on it. If enacted into law, it would guarantee the right for public- and private-sector workers to organize and collectively bargain in the Pennsylvania Constitution.<\/p>\n<p> Public-sector unions can already influence how state government works. In recent budget hearings, a number of state agencies warned about workforce shortages, but leaders can\u2019t always change how their agencies work.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cUnion-negotiated work rules (such as those around job classification, union business, and preservation of bargaining unit work) in a collective bargaining agreement prevent state government from directing its own employees or providing the most efficient services,\u201d Osbourne said. \u201cOver time, it always seems to take more money and more employees to get the same amount of government work done.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Center Square) \u2014 Though not all data is publicly available, Pennsylvania is one of the most union-dense states in America for government workers. A recent analysis by the Commonwealth Foundation found that Pennsylvania has\u00a0 34% of its public workers paying union dues . 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