Posted on 08/11/2016 8:24:56 AM PDT by buckalfa
Link only due to uncertainty of copyright rules with WV Metro News.
I had the right to not work in a union shop and to not pay dues. Government employees do not have to join the union and do not have to pay dues. Colorado is an open shop state.
Hordes of teachers.
Not only do the unions not provide benefits to all their members, they actually harm those workers who would do better with merit pay and without union seniority rules.
The idea that unions are entitled to be compensated by those they hold back for holding them back is ridiculous.
Well and truly said.
As did I.
I worked for a large and rich county in Northern California for 8 years. First as a Contract worker, later as a direct employee. I did not pay one cent in union dues the entire time.
The union rep in my immediate section was a crook who did outside paid work on county time, with County equipment and supplies; years after I left he was finally discovered and fired.
When approached to pay union dues, I agreed to do so provided I chose what charity the dues would go to; the default was the Union had a list of "approved" charities, a distinction without a difference, and none of which I approved of.
The entire 5 years that I worked directly for the County was spent debating my right to name my charity of choice.
Bottom line, I had never paid a cent in "union dues," when I retired.
David Horowitz has a solution for this. He was on Dennis Prager this afternoon. It was to have Congress rescind the courts’ ability to overrule legislature by restricting what the courts can rule on. Apparently there are legal and Constitutional grounds for it centering around the premise that laws of a Constitutional Representative Republic cannot be voided by the Judicial branch because the Judiciary is not representative of the Peoples’ will, intent or well fare. In a case of dispute the courts cannot overturn the intent of a legislature.
Exactly. A case can be made that the union harms all its members by, for example, negotiating pie in the sky pension benefits that are bound to be in receivership when the members need them.
“Colorado is an open shop state. “
Indeed. But not Right To Work as you originally incorrectly stated.
The circuit court in West Virginia is the first step for a case to wind its way to the state supreme court.
I worked for the federal government which could not make us pay union dues. That was 9 years ago so it does not really matter now.
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