Most of these have already passed
There are several bills which are currently under debate:
HB159/SB136: Prohibits public employees from having a payroll deduction to a political action committee or for dues for membership organizations that use funds for political activities.
HB130/SB113: Abolishes teachers’ unions ability to negotiate terms and conditions of professional service with local boards of education.
HB367/SB 0624: Allows the board of education to grant teachers tenure at any time between their third and tenth years of service; eliminates judicial review of decision to suspend or dismiss a teacher for incompetence, inefficiency, neglect of duty, unprofessional conduct or insubordination.
SB102/HB565: changes the method of selection of trustees of TCRS representing teachers and retired teachers from election by the representative assemblies of the Tennessee Education Association and the Tennessee Retired Teachers Association respectively to appointment by the speakers of the senate and the house.
HB160/SB139: Creates Class C misdemeanor for labor organization to contribute to candidates.
HB179/SB294: Prohibits LEAs from denying equal access to LEA employees to all domestic professional employees’ organizations offering membership to all certificated personnel.
Though these all vary in heinousness, HB159/SB136 and HB160/SB139 seem obviously unconstitutional— even to the Roberts’ court! HB130/SB113 should be unconstitutional as labor’s right to collectively bargain is a right not a privilege.
And just to prove I’m not a mindless zealot, I don’t really see what is wrong with HB179/SB294.
