Posted on 06/20/2013 4:09:32 PM PDT by jazusamo
In the summer of 2012, the Nevada Policy Research Institute, a non-partisan think tank based in Las Vegas, initiated a campaign to let local teachers know that they could opt out of their union, the 12,000 member Clark County Education Association, by submitting written notice between July 1 and July 15.
The reaction was dazzling. Hundreds of teachers had wanted to leave the union but didn't know that it was possible. Armed with their new-found information, over 400 chose to leave their unions.
Building on that momentum, NPRI, in conjunction with the Association with the Association of American Educators, is promoting June 23-29 this year as National Employee Freedom Week — a week dedicated to educating employees about exactly what rights they have regarding union membership. The campaign has over 50 member organizations across the nation.
When it comes to employee freedom, every state's experience is different. California, for instance, is different than Nevada because it's not a right-to-work state, in which employees may leave their unions at any point. In California, however, union members must still pay the portion of union dues that goes toward collective bargaining and other non-political union-related activities.
Know The Options
But if they don't like their union's politics, they don't have to help fund them. The dissenters who select this "agency fee" option typically do so because they don't like that about one-third of their dues goes for political spending. Even though over 40% of union households voted Republican in 2012, over 90% of union largesse went to Democrats and liberal causes.
This is important for employees in every state, including California. The Golden State has many dominant unions — ...
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I am friends with the faculty union rep at the university where I am a faculty member.
If our union was not under the AFL-CIO I’d think about joining it.
Good post, thank you for the information!
I was a union member once. Never again.
I was in the AFL-CIO and I was in a local independent union.
The indy union was far superior. I made less but had top notch medical and the rules weren’t so rigid and we could work out extra time off or raises as individuals.
“I was in the AFL-CIO and I was in a local independent union.”
I was in the Bakers union in California. Everything was based on seniority. So you could guess i didn’t get holidays off for the 5 years i worked there. Plus the mentality of the employees was almost an entitled one every time the union would push for this raise or that raise. hated it.
The union conservatives were instrumental in helping to bring RTW to Michigan.
http://www.unionconservatives.com/
Right to work is the only way to go for all states, IMO.
Thanks for the link re Union Conservatives!
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