{"id":38893,"date":"2025-02-01T03:01:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T08:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=38893"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:01:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T08:01:36","slug":"utahs-anti-public-union-bill-advances-again-with-promise-of-union-neutral-rewrite-but-union-reps-say-they-havent-seen-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=38893","title":{"rendered":"Utah\u2019s anti-public union bill advances again with promise of \u2018union-neutral\u2019 rewrite \u2014 but union reps say they haven\u2019t seen it"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A bill that would ban public employee unions from collective bargaining is one step closer to becoming law, despite a firestorm of opposition. Lawmakers have assured a significant substitute, but union representatives said they haven&#8217;t yet seen it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/politics\/2025\/01\/29\/hb267-update-utah-anti-public\/\">Utah\u2019s anti-public union bill advances again with promise of \u2018union-neutral\u2019 rewrite \u2014 but union reps say they haven\u2019t seen it<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of Thursday afternoon,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/le.utah.gov\/~2025\/bills\/static\/HB0267.html\" target=\"_blank\">HB267<\/a>\u00a0as written would eliminate collective bargaining for public sector employees, including teachers, firefighters and police officers. While it would not prevent public employees from joining or forming unions, <strong><em>it would prohibit government employers from \u201crecognizing a labor organization as a bargaining agent.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1008\" height=\"376\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image.png 1008w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-300x112.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-768x286.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/image-675x252.png 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would ban public employee unions from collective bargaining is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[743,715],"class_list":["post-38893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-unions","tag-utah","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38896,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38893\/revisions\/38896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}