Florida Republicans file bills to make it harder for government workers to form and keep unions

As the Center for Media and Democracy points out, there’s a strategic purpose to peddling these kinds of copy-cat proposals across GOP-controlled states. “Model bills like those developed and promulgated by ALEC serve a dual purpose: they both advance a cookie-cutter, pro-corporate agenda at the state level and create avenues for impact litigation whereby state laws are strategically implemented in order to generate court cases that can force a reshaping of federal regulations and protections,” writes Juliana Broad, a writer and researcher for the CMD.