Government Lobbies, Government Employees

Oral presentations are the week after next!

• Avoid uptalk
• Presentations will be very short: 9 minutes max, including q&a.  You do not have to use PowerPoint or any visuals at all unless you need photos or graphs!

For Thursday 

• Marcia L, McCormick, "Our Uneasiness with Police Unions: Power and Voice for the Powerful?" Saint Louis University Public Law Review 35 (2015), https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1135&context=faculty

Intergovernmental Lobbying (Cigler, ch. 6)

MORE THAN 90,000 GOVERNMENTS

[Source: U.S. Census Bureau]

Governments in the US

• Counties
• The list
• Water boards in California
• Intergovernmental organizations in the United States

Regional Governors

• CONEG
• MGA
• GSGP

Partisan Governors

• RGA
• DGA

Other Examples of Government lobbying Government

• Los Angeles County
• San Francisco
• University of California (and a familiar face at Berkeley)

Case studies:

• Governors and Medicaid

Union membership, historical:

Latest BLS Data

1869: Knights of Labor
1886: Haymarket Riot
1886: AF of L 
1894: Pullman Strike
1905: IWW begins
1911: Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
1912: Massachusetts passes first state minimum wage law
1912: Socialist labor leader Eugene Debs win 6% in presidential election
1913: Federal Department of Labor Established
1919: Federal government imprisons Eugene V. Debs
1919: Coolidge breaks the Boston police strike
1931: Davis-Bacon Act
1933: Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor
1935: Wagner Act
1937: CIO Splits from AFL
1938: Fair Labor Standards Act
1944: CIO invents the PAC
1947: Taft-Hartley Act
1955: AFL-CIO Merger
1962: JFK issues executive order 10988


Why the private-sector decline?

Right to Work Laws and The States

Another reason:

Even after Janus, public sector unions hold their own