Actually, you have it bass-ackards. In many union shops, even if you are NOT a union member, they still take your monthly union dues out of your paycheck and you have to beg for your “dues” to be returned!
My daughter works for Kroger’s, but did not want to join the union. Even though she is NOT a union member, the store says that the Union is the business unit that they are required to work with and therefore the agreed upon union policies are set for all employees that are not management. So, every paycheck they take out the standard union dues and she has to request, in writing, from the store (with union boss approval) to have her “dues” returned.
If you miss the deadline for requesting, which has recently been changed to “...the payday following the posting date for your last payment.” Basically, if she misses a week where she doesn’t request a return of her dues, they automatically get to keep that week’s “dues!”
Unions are micro-Communistic organizations! Everyone works for the good of the union (whether it is good for your or not)!! Unions had purposes many years ago, now they are nothing more than political machines! And most are tightening a noose around their own collective necks by killing the Goose that Lays to golden eggs, because they want more eggs than the D@MN goose can produce!
The owners of Krogers are operating illegally.