I thought Pennsylvania was a Right To Work State?
“The teachers, Chris Meier from Lancaster County and Jane Ladley from Chester County, are required—as a condition of employment—either to be a member of the Pennsylvania State Education Association or pay a nonmember “fair share” fee of $435.
Last spring, PSEA accepted Meier and Ladley’s status as religious objectors. In lieu of paying membership dues, state law instructed the teachers to pay a “fair share” fee to a charity of their choice.
Pennsylvania law stipulates that religious objectors must select a “non-religious charity” that is “agreed upon” by the union,...”
Let me see if I got thins right. They are accepted as religious objectors to joining a union, so they have to donate to a non-religious charity that the union has to agree to?
Doesn’t that violate their 1st amendment rights?
Union coalition AFL-CIO spends $30 million-plus on politics
By Jason Hart / October 7, 2014
Watchdog.org
Labor union coalition AFL-CIO spent more than $30 million on politics during the past year, shoveling money taken from workers to big-government groups across the country.
AFL-CIO reported “Political Activities” totaling $28 million for its 2014 fiscal year, which ended on June 30. Another $4.8 million in AFL-CIO payments to political nonprofits were reported to the U.S. Department of Labor as “Contributions, Gifts and Grants” or “Representational Activities.”
http://watchdog.org/175345/aflcio-union-politics/