President Bush's entire cabinet signed a letter to Senate leaders today, demanding that they approve his ability to strip the collective-bargaining rights of employees in the proposed department.

While his supporters in public-sector unions around the country were desperately fighting-and, for the most part, failing-to retain their collective-bargaining rights, the President remained largely silent.

Union members won collective-bargaining rights in the 1930s, and minorities won protection from discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The combination of collective-bargaining rights and Civil Service protection hobbles good management.

By sixty-one to thirty-nine per cent, Ohioans voted to repeal a law that would have severely limited the collective-bargaining rights of public employees.

Republicans in the Senate and Assembly have proposed measures that would limit collective-bargaining rights and increase pension contributions for state employees.

Restrictions to collective-bargaining rights were seen as unlikely to pass the Democratic-controlled Legislature.

There was a Republican-sponsored Senate bill that would restrict collective-bargaining rights for the state.

He asks whether municipal employees need both collective-bargaining rights and Civil Service guarantees.

He granted collective-bargaining rights to municipal labor unions.