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A master contract or master agreement is a collective bargaining agreement which covers all unionized worksites in an industry, market or company, and which establishes the terms and conditions of employment common to all workers in the industry, market or company. [1] [2] [3]
(The Center Square) – The Seattle City Council’s first action of the new year will be finding a replacement for the District 2 position. Earlier this month, Tammy Morales announced that she ...
Collective bargaining is not simply an instrument for pursuing external ends... rather [it] is intrinsically valuable as an experience in self-government... Collective bargaining permits workers to achieve a form of workplace democracy and to ensure the rule of law in the workplace. Workers gain a voice to influence the establishment of rules ...
Opponents, such as Richard Kahlenberg, [2] [23] have argued that right-to-work laws simply "gives employees the right to be free riders—to benefit from collective bargaining without paying for it." [24] [25] Benefits the dissenting union members would receive despite not paying dues also include representation during arbitration proceedings. [26]
Seattle City Councilmember Dan Strauss did not agree. According to Strauss, retaining the 2040 sunset will lead to a $500,000 million structural budget deficit for the city 16 years from now.
The first U.S. state to permit collective bargaining by public employees was Wisconsin, in 1959. [15] Collective bargaining is now permitted in three fourths of U.S. states. [ 16 ] By the 1960s and 1970s public-sector unions expanded rapidly to cover teachers, clerks, firemen, police, prison guards and others.
(The Center Square) – Seattle City Council Chair Sara Nelson says there’s more work to be done on public safety even after more than 10 related bills were passed in 2024. In the first year of ...
A union security agreement is a contractual agreement, usually part of a union collective bargaining agreement, in which an employer and a trade or labor union agree on the extent to which the union may compel employees to join the union, and/or whether the employer will collect dues, fees, and assessments on behalf of the union.