This is an interesting article since Mass Transit magazine is basically for transit management. They hold up Trimet as the example of how to to the no strike thing. What they have failed to point out is that Trimet has a very passive employee base. Virtually no real activism goes on there, no real solidarity and the union is fairly weak. A 'winner take all' approach is devastating to the labor movement. Personally I think the union destroyed itself when it signed on to this bull shit.
Since the union workers essentially get no say in their contract, why shouldn't it be a 'right to work' union membership which means join if you want and don't join if you don't want.
In Oregon, where strikes by transit workers have been banned since 1995, there has generally been labor peace, said Henry Drummonds, a law professor at Lewis and Clark University in Portland. He helped install the system.
If contract talks don't work, Drummonds said, the two sides go to an arbitrator, who picks one proposal or the other — winner take all.
Strike bans bring issues - Mass Transit
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