A History of NCGS 95-98
Where did this law come from?
"...the law that became 95-98 began with officials in Charlotte frightened about Jimmy Hoffa's threat to organize the city police. The anti-union efforts quickly expanded beyond this immediate issue and, stirred up by the Charlotte Observer's reporting and editorials in December 1958 and January 1959, challenged the right of any public employee to join a union. Mecklenburg representative Frank Snepp then wrote a law to prevent all public employees (not just police and firemen) from collectively bargaining with the government and even from belonging to a union."
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Impact of Public Sector Unions...
on Government Operations and Worker Welfare
"As advocates for public sector workers in the state begin the long process of changing the law, it is natural for workers and government officials alike to ask what difference public sector collective bargaining would make. Officials will want to know whether unions would hamper productivity and increase costs. Workers will want to know if their wages and benefits would improve and whether personnel practices would become fairer. We have read widely in the scholarly literature to try to put together answers to these legitimate questions. Every state is different, but patterns do emerge...effects on government productivity; government efficiency and costs; worker welfare, including wages and benefits; and the fairness of personnel practices."
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