Michigan legislative action thread
Posted on 03/11/2014 4:54:06 AM PDT by Lorianne
Just over a year ago the state of Michigan passed a right-to-work law ruling that the state's teachers cannot be forced by law to belong to a union as they had been before. Since then the state teachers union has claimed that it lost only a few members. Still the union was also forced to admit that 8,000 teachers have stopped paying dues.
In October of last year, the Michigan Education Association (MEA) made the claim that "99 percent" of its members remained happily unionized despite the state's ten-month-old worker freedom law.
It is true that the union has allowed some teachers to leave without opposition as long as they had filed their separation papers last year in August, the one month during the year that the union claims teachers are "allowed" to leave. State law does not sanction this. It is only a union policy.
Regardless that it is not an enforceable law, the union threatened to send teachers who stopped paying dues to collection agencies. Letters were also sent to all union members that they must hand over bank and credit card account numbers so that the union can automatically deduct dues from their accounts.
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what made them wake up
Well, they may not be paying dues to the union but how many of them are still HUGE fans of the “lyin’ king”?
At least those 8000 people are not giving their money to the union to support hussein. That’s gotta sting.
It’s kind of funny when people take the same sense of entitlement they have about taxpayer money and apply it to their own public-sector union. It appears that these 8,000 teachers want to be union members but don’t want to pay their union dues. LOL.
what made them wake up
Most likely Detroit going in the tank dragging the rest of
the state with it. States and even the unions themselves
know how destructive they are. In certain cases, unions are
a good thing but like anything the liberals get their hands
on, it went to crap.
“At least those 8000 people are not giving their money to the union to support hussein. That’s gotta sting.”
So. They can still launder money through using their name
if they are still a member. Liberals are great at generating
cash flow from their foreign communist supporters.
Anyone know the total union membership count before the law was past..For example, in Wisconsin, over 60% of gov't ( not teachers) workers have dropped out of the union..the teachers unions won't release the actual numbers...I've heard about 35%..and that's skewed, because many districts rush to sign contracts before the law went into effect.
Folks at VW/Chattanooga can take note...
There are supposedly 93,000 public school teachers in Michigan. 8,000 sounds like a lot, but it is no where the percentage of what happened in Wisconsin.
Another rejection of the Unions. The 'Rats will be desperate.
Michigan is a year behind Wisconsin and we actually went full RTW. It takes time and in the year since RTW was passed, unions have taken a beating.
Just yesterday the SEIU paid the second highest fine ever paid in Michigan for campaign finance violations. It was only $200,000 but they’re also being sued for $30 million by hundreds who were illegally forced to unionize. (BTW the highest fine ever was paid by our current democrat candidate for governor)
And now every union member is aware of the policy, and August is just five months away. September should be interesting.
Public sector unions are never good thing and should not be allowed as a matter of public policy.
Private sector, I’m OK with them. At least there, they can drive a business out of business, so there are consequences for union overreach.
The thing for teachers is that it’s not wise to walk into a classroom without legal backing if something goes wrong. If the teachers can’t have the legal protection without paying the dues, it would be extremely foolish to drop the union.
When the NEA Today shows up in the mail, (wifey still a teacher; for almost 30 years) it goes in the trash unless I choose to read it and get upset.
If paying NEA dues was an option in our state, my wife wouldn't be paying the NEA $125/month every month I read NEA Today. Seriously though, the teacher union is a necessary evil in our politicized world today; liability issues, school boards, crazy parents, home child abuse situations brought to school, Youth Protection Services questioning teachers about kid's home life, on and on in our world today. Most teachers would pay the dues I do believe.
Michigan seems to be turning around quite quickly, which is why I like reading about it.
Who is leading this effort...it can’t be the governor.
My state rep Mike Shirkey is the one who introduced the bill that finally passed. He’s running for state senate now.
Another unlikely mover and shaker for RTW was Terry Bowman who is a UAW Ford employee. He’s now running as a republican for the seat being vacated by John Dingell.
It’s a good start. The conservatives need to adapt the Dem strategy of incrementalism when it comes to instituting conservative policy and idealogy.
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