Case in point:
I'm semi-retired, work 15-20 hours at a local grocery store which is part of the UFCW union (United food and commercial workers).
The first letter I received when I HAD to join the union was:
Welcome to the union, make sure you pay your dues ON TIME!
That was it, AND, because of 0bozocare and reduced employee hours, I'm considered a FULLTIME worker and have to pay fulltime monthly dues.
It's a scam to keep union boss's fat paychecks and to back socialist candidates.
Looking for other part-time work.
Since it's an article about education, may as well get the first sentence right.
Good start.
Wisconsin Teachers Choosing to Pull Out of Unions
By Elliot Jager | Monday, 20 Oct 2014 07:13 AM
Increasing numbers of teachers in Wisconsin are choosing not to remain union members now that they have a choice, Fox News reported. A 2011 law unsuccessfully opposed by unions in the state Legislature, through a gubernatorial recall election, and in the courts has resulted in a precipitous decline in enrollment.
Until the law was passed, teachers were compelled to be members of either the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) or the smaller AFT-Wisconsin. The educational system was obligated to withdraw union dues directly from teachers’ pay and pass the fees on.
Under the current law, unions need to seek annual recertification from teachers to establish that a majority still want it to represent them in collective bargaining, Fox News reported.
Since the law’s passage, WEAC membership has fallen by about 33 percent from some 100,000 teachers. The AFT-Wisconsin union has seen its membership fall by more than 50 percent from 16,000 in its heyday.
Supporters of the law said that unions were heavily invested in supporting the Democratic agenda and making contributions to Democratic candidates.
“It’s important to have a choice, because we are all professionals. We shouldn’t be pigeonholed into contributing to politics we don’t believe in,” said special education teacher Michelle Uetz, Fox News reported.
“As soon as I was given the choice, I left,” said teacher Amy Rosno, adding, “I realized that it was all political and not about teaching.”
http://www.newsmax.com/US/Wisconsin-teachers-unions-membership/2014/10/20/id/601715/
Has anybody published a dollar amount that the decline in members is costing the unions on a yearly bases?
How many teachers are still locked into union contracts? If you subtract those out..then I suspect the % of those who left the union, and were able to do so, is about 50%
Not enough!
Collective bargaining rewards mediocrity with tenure.
Michigan should study how Wisconsin got rid of collective bargaining.