GOODBYE JANE WELCOME JERRY

[A CURRENT UNIT PRESIDENT]

Jerry takes over as the NEW CSEA PRESIDENT today, the members have spoken and Jerry won big!
Good luck Jerry to you and your entire slate, we finally have a union president who will stand up for us and help the members.

Now it is finally official and we can really sing
DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD!!!!

[The end is nigh]

Jane may be gone but you could have Samuel Gompers heading up the CSEA, don't expect things to get any better. Simply holding the fort will come to be seen as a victory.

Labor unions in America have experienced a tremendous decline in membership over the past several decades, losing members even during times of relative prosperity. For example, between 1994 and 1995, the number of union members dropped 300,000—to 16.4 million workers—despite the fact that employment increased by over two million workers during the same period. Largely as a result of a decrease in unionized private-sector workers, the unionized share of the total U. S. labor force declined from 15.5 to 14.9 percent.

This overall trend of decline has continued, despite recent gains in public-sector unionization: Unions now represent 37.5 percent of public-sector employees but only 9.5 percent of private-sector workers. Private-sector union representation peaked in 1953 at a level of 35.7 percent, and it has been a downhill slide for unions since that time.

The organizing challenge facing labor unions just to maintain their 10 percent share of private-sector employee representation is formidable. To meet the challenge, unions will have to organize roughly 200,000 private-sector workers each year (assuming current rates of workforce growth). To maintain their representation level in the public-sector workforce, unions will have to add 100,000 public-sector employees per year.
Given the rate at which workers have been leaving unions, the labor movement will have to add nearly 700,000 members per year just to maintain its current levels of employee representation.

However, there is even more to the story. In recent years, unions have been losing membership in absolute, not just relative, terms. Thus, to keep up, they must stem this membership decline while adding new members. Given the rate at which workers have been leaving unions, the labor movement will have to add nearly 700,000 members per year just to maintain its current levels of employee representation. Achieving even a modest one-percent increase in unions' representation rate would increase the organizing task by another one million new workers every year.

There are several major trends that have contributed and are contributing to the continued decline in labor union membership, and these trends continue to grow in strength. They are as follows:

1. Global competition and deregulation in traditionally unionized industries. In recent years, the federal government has deregulated heavily unionized industries including the trucking, railroad, and airline industries. Deregulation has brought greater competition in this industries not only domestically but also from abroad. No longer is the U. S. free from global competitive pressures, as many argue it was in the years following World War II. Economic globalization has resulted in large-scale layoffs and growing economic insecurity for workers, particularly in these historically unionized industries. This in turn has limited union efforts to raise their members' wages and benefits. For example, trucking deregulation hit the Teamsters union hard because competition meant that trucking firms could no longer keep their prices high enough to support the Teamsters' wage premiums. The new competitive labor market freed nonunion truckers from the roadblocks they faced in getting jobs. In the seven years since trucking deregulation began in earnest, the share of truckers who belonged to unions fell by more than half, to 28 percent.

2. Changes in the American economy and workforce demographics. The rising number of illegal immigrant workers who, fearing deportation, are disinclined to protest substandard employment conditions, much less become involved in a union organizing campaign. The rapidly expanding contingent workforce—composed of mostly women, temporary workers, and part-time employees—has also proven to be difficult for unions to organize. Additionally, shifts in the American job market from the stagnant manufacturing sector to an expanding service sector and the creation of many new largely white collar and technical occupations have also presented organizing challenges to unions.

3. Federal employment law supplanting traditional union roles. Over the past several decades, Congress has passed a number of new laws and mandates designed to combat employment discrimination of various types, establish safe and healthy workplaces, provide family and medical leave, give workers notice for plant closings, and much more. The trend has been for government to assume responsibility for more and more of the things traditionally advocated and protected by unions. Unions have thus become less necessary for many workers, and the cultural movement toward legislative protections has to a great extent replaced collective action in the workplace.

4. Today's workers are less interested in unionization. The declining numbers of union members over the past 20 years has spawned another problem for unions—the current generation of workers comes largely from households where there are no union workers to serve as models. Hence, these younger workers have little knowledge of, and do not particularly care about, unions. More than 70 percent of the current civilian labor force is under the age of 45. Today's workers also tend to be highly mobile, better educated, and often in white-collar or new-collar (computer, technical, etc.) careers. They care about wages, but many care more about such issues as career advancement, day care, quality of life on the job, developing new skills, and having some say in how their jobs are done. Workers of today also tend to be more sympathetic to business. Many came of age during the oil-shocks of the mid-1970s, the back-to-back recessions that followed, and the trade wars. This has led them to appreciate the importance of business in creating jobs and has made them desire unions that are willing to cooperate with management rather than confront it.

Celebrate all you want about Jane leaving. It's a Pyrrhic victory.

[Unions!!]

David...our union is going nowhere! It will be here when you're dead and buried..and from the looks of you....(been a tough time lately) that will be sooner than later!

[No denying the positive]

What that very long, well written and well researched speech means is that Jerry is taking over a weak union at the lowest point in time for all unions. That is true. Union enrollment is at the lowest levels ever, and quite frankly the effectiveness of the unions today is much lower than it was in the 60's, 70's and 80's.
That does not mean Jerry cannot establich true relations with management by way of respect and dignity. He will force their hands and make them realize that in Nassau County unions are as strong as their POLITICS. Jerry knows how to use politics. Watch him and learn.

[No argument here]

I don't disagree with the statement that Jerry establish true relations with management by way of respect and dignity. I would say good relations will be critical to his success. The point is that Jerry needs to understand that the whole dynamic between labor and management has changed. The challenge for him will be to find a way to work with management in this new reality. He better be a creative thinker who is willing to move away from old tactics in order to accomplish anything.

Even elected Democrats are no longer willing to be an acquiescent lap dog to the unions.

[Mr. Thomas Suozzi]

I have every intention of making Jerry one of my. It will be hard work but the effort will be well worth it. How about it Jerry? Do I have your endorsement for the upcoming CE election. I can sweeten the offer by giving your wife and kids jobs with the county.




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Will Jerry become another Jane? Time will only tell.

[Will Suozzi become Jane]

Time will really tell. Ask Spitzer!

[Jerry's Pal]

I have every intention of making Jerry one of my. It will be hard work but the effort will be well worth it. How about it Jerry? Do I have your endorsement for the upcoming CE election. I can sweeten the offer by giving your wife and kids jobs with the county.




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Yes Tom Jerry will talk to you if the job your offering is yours. Otherwise, get ready to finally have to negotiate with the largest union in your county. Jane is gone and a real leader is now going to be your counterpart, like it or not.

I have every intention of making Jerry one of my. It will be hard work but the effort will be well worth it. How about it Jerry? Do I have your endorsement for the upcoming CE election. I can sweeten the offer by giving your wife and kids jobs with the county.




http://www.nassaucountyny.gov/official/resources/image/468edcd4aa95df4f/Suozzi_2005.jpg

Yes Tom Jerry will talk to you if the job your offering is yours. Otherwise, get ready to finally have to negotiate with the largest union in your county. Jane is gone and a real leader is now going to be your counterpart, like it or not.

Suozzi needs the CSEA, Lets see if Jerry got what it takes to be a leader and take Suozzi head on.

I have every intention of making Jerry one of my. It will be hard work but the effort will be well worth it. How about it Jerry? Do I have your endorsement for the upcoming CE election. I can sweeten the offer by giving your wife and kids jobs with the county.




http://www.nassaucountyny.gov/official/resources/image/468edcd4aa95df4f/Suozzi_2005.jpg

Yes Tom Jerry will talk to you if the job your offering is yours. Otherwise, get ready to finally have to negotiate with the largest union in your county. Jane is gone and a real leader is now going to be your counterpart, like it or not.

Suozzi needs the CSEA, Lets see if Jerry got what it takes to be a leader and take Suozzi head on.

Let the games begin.

Jerry takes over as the NEW CSEA PRESIDENT today, the members have spoken and Jerry won big!
Good luck Jerry to you and your entire slate, we finally have a union president who will stand up for us and help the members.

Now it is finally official and we can really sing
DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: