Utah: New law bans collective bargaining for public sector workers, a threat to the entire labor movement - Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen

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Utah: New law bans collective bargaining for public sector workers, a threat to the entire labor movement - Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen

Union members protesting anti-worker legislation at the state capital in Salt Lake City, Utah. Photo: Associated Press ____________________ A regressive collective bargaining ban that strips Utah’s public sector workers of their long-held worker rights was passed by the legislature and signed into law by the governor this week over opposition from all of the state’s unions. Beginning July 1, Utah’s teachers, firefighters, police officers, transi…