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Arizona: Rank 3

Pension Liability – Total $44.0 billion6 - Per household $6081

Union Membership Density:

  • Total-6.4%
  • Private Sector-3.6%
  • Public Sector-19.7%

Right to Work:

Government Sector Collective Bargaining Laws: 

  • No Provision

Paycheck Protection Law:

Secret Ballot Protection:

Forced Card Check:

  • No Provision

Government Sector Binding Arbitration Provisions: 

  • No Provision

Public Access to Government Bargaining Sessions: 

  • No Provision

Project Labor Agreement Bans:

Government Employee Strike Policy:

  • State: No Provision
  • Police: No Provision
  • Fire: No Provision
  • Teachers: (Prohibited) See 2

Arizona Labor News

  • Unions take hit by panel Posted on: February 3, 2012
    By Howard Fischer, azdailysun.com State lawmakers launched an attack Wednesday against public unions, including an absolute ban on state and local governments and school districts from bargaining with organizations that represent public workers. The party line vote in the Republican-controlled Senate Committee on Government Reform came after extensive testimony from the Goldwater Institute, which crafted [...]
  • AZ Senate panel OKs ban on collective bargaining Posted on: February 2, 2012
    By Howard Fischer, Arizona Daily Star State lawmakers launched a broad attack today against public unions, including an absolute ban on state and local governments and school districts from bargaining with organizations that represent public workers. The party line vote in the Republican-controlled Senate Committee on Government Reform came after extensive testimony by the anti-union [...]
  • GOP lawmakers in Arizona target public employee unions; bill would ban collective bargaining Posted on: February 1, 2012
    By Paul Davenport, The Republic Republican legislators are launching a push against Arizona public employee unions with bills that include a ban on collective bargaining with government workers, a change that would be felt in school districts and local governments. A Senate committee is scheduled to consider the legislation Wednesday. The Arizona legislation is being [...]
  • Taxpayers Pay Teacher to Do Union Work During School Hours Posted on: January 30, 2012
    By Education Action Group, Big Government Across the United States, taxpayer dollars are being used to subsidize the salaries and benefits of teachers and other municipal employees who work for their local labor unions. This wasteful tradition costs taxpayers millions each year, and has gone largely unnoticed because the details of the arrangements are most often [...]
  • Phoenix-area transit union is planning to strike Posted on: January 17, 2012
    By Lynh Bui and Dianna M. Náñez, The Arizona Republic At the new offices of the union representing thousands of Valley bus drivers, handbills have been flying out of the copy machine by the ream. Hundreds of signs on wooden stakes lean against the walls of the conference room. And Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1433 [...]

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