Question

Do you believe that public employees should be allowed, by law, to organize and join unions? Give at least three reasons to support your answer.

Answer 1

Yes. Public employee should be allowed to join unions due to the following reasons.

Explanation:

                                        First, the right of public workers to unionize seems, by all accounts, to be no more firmly settled than the authority of governmental bodies to disallow unionization. A Connecticut court decided in 1951 that "In the absence of prohibitory statute or regulation, no good reason appears why public employees should not organize as a labor union." At the point when in 1953 Alabama authorized a law such that any public worker joining a worker's unions would relinquish the "rights, benefits, or privileges which he enjoys as a result of his public employment" a C.I.O. the unions challenged its legality. Despite the fact that the case was taken to the Supreme Court, the judges on May 13, 1957, declined to make a decision on the constitutional question since it had not been considered by the state courts, in this way leaving the law in operation.

                           Secondly, various cities have prohibited union enrollment for fire fighters and policemen. A 1942 ordinance in Dallas, Texas, rendered it illegal for any officer, worker or agent, or any gathering of them, of the City of Dallas to form a labor union. In 1946, the law was upheld by a court of civil appeals. The following year, nonetheless, the Texas governing body adopted a "right to work" law announcing the right of all workers to join or decline to join labor unions ("Employer/Union Rights and Obligations | NLRB,"). A year ago the Supreme Court in Texas decided that the Dallas law was in conflict with the state statute, whose purpose would be ruined if an employer could expel a worker without good cause when he discovers that the worker is in the act of taking part in a union.

                            Thirdly, workers are supported by laws. the Lloyd-LaFollette Act enacted 45 years ago has for the most part been viewed as giving public workers the right to organize, despite the fact that the law says just that membership of postal employees in affiliated not allied with those imposing a commitment to strike might not constitute or be cause for removal or reduction in compensation or pay or rank of such individual or group from said service. Many municipalities have adopted laws or issued statements of policy explicitly perceiving the rights of their workers to unionize. Among them are Bridgeport, Hartford, and Middle town, Conn.; Pontiac and Lansing, Mich.; Louisville, Ky.; and Cincinnati, Ohio. Gov. George M. of Pennsylvania in May 27 issued an executive order, avowing the rights of state workers to join unions and pointing that there will not be discrimination against any public worker for union activity.