NLRB on "Joint Employers"

[Benton]

(08-28-2015, 11:21 AM)michaelsean Wrote: Post office, police, fire mostly.  

Learn something every day, I didn't know postal workers had a union.



Public employee unions and blue collar unions tend to differ as the jobs aren't really comparable. Police and fire fighter definitions of unsafe working conditions tend to come from what they're paid to deal with, not because their employer ignored safety reports or bought shoddy equipment, like what coal miners, chemical engineers and heavy equipment operators have to deal with. And since typically those public employees can't strike, they don't have the financial support that's there from labor unions who keep their employees afloat during strikes.

Generally, I'm against public employee unions. Governmental agencies have protocols and standards in place that don't have to exist in private business. But that's not the same as labor or unions at private businesses.