Posted on 08/29/2015 3:22:17 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
MADISON, Wisconsin — A worker-freedom organization is sending a special legal notice to unionized employees of the Big Three automakers in Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan.
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation wants United Auto Workers members at General Motors, Ford and Chrysler to know their new workplace rights now that they are residents of right-to-work states.
Those new rights kick in Sept. 15, after the old UAW contracts, which included forced union dues, expire.
In a statement Thursday, the Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation said that once the UAW’s “monopoly bargaining contracts” with the automakers end, all employees will be able to exercise their new rights under their states’ right-to-work laws. The three states prohibit unions from requiring forced payment of union fees as a condition of employment.
All workers will have the right to resign union membership and will no longer have to pay “agency fees” to the union at any time, for any reason.
“Big Three auto workers can finally exercise their rights not to financially support an organization against their will,” Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Foundation, said in a statement. “These workers are finally free from the shackles of compulsory unionism, and UAW union bosses can no longer count them as part of their forced-dues funded empire.”
But the NRTW Foundation cautions the UAW members they must submit their request to withdraw from the union in writing. Foundation staff attorneys have drafted a sample resignation and revocation letter that can be found here.
Wisconsin became the 25th right-to-work state earlier this year after a short-lived battle with big labor.
Indiana joined the ranks in 2012, and Michigan became a right-to-work state in 2013.
The UAW’s membership rolls nationwide have grown over the past five years, topping 400,000 last year – the first time that has occurred since 2008, according to the Detroit Free Press.
Those numbers could take a hit Sept. 15.
“The impulse of the union is to discourage you from hearing this information,” right-to-work activist and Ford plant worker Brian Pannebecker told a group of UAW members earlier this year at a conference center in Sterling Heights, according to the Free Press. “They don’t want you to know these things because it might impact their revenue stream, which is your dues money.”
UAW officials could not be reached for comment.
“Workplace freedom is expanding in the Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, and that’s good for those states’ workers and their economies,” Mix said.
Workers who have questions about their rights or have suffered workplace abuse may contact the NRTW Foundation for free legal aid, at (800) 336-3600 or visit www.nrtw.org .
Right to Work and relaxed union control hits Wisconsin automakers.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Thank you, Governor Scott Walker!
Another example of Walker’s conservatism, put into ACTION....not just words for the masses to create tingly legs.
This is going to get interesting! Somewhere Henry Ford is smiling
So, now, the employees (no longer communist “workers”) of the Big Three whose ideologies are anything different than the atheistic communist Democratic Party of America will not have to pay a share of their paychecks to have their ideals opposed/negated.
The unions will continue to contribute, solely to the Democrats of course...atheistic communists support atheistic communism absolutely comrade. But that pot will hopefully get smaller.
but this article has influenced me .....
at our next school board meeting, I think I'll promote a 'right to work' movement to fix our ongoing, ever growing teacher's pension crisis.
When turnips promise blood, it is time for people to become suspicious!
Pensions for government workers should be phased out and replaced with 401K plans. When all the underfunded pensions bite the dust, it won’t be pretty.
stay where he is? Dude, he can only be governor two more years....you think he should can a WH run for the last two years of an 8 year term?
Some people chuckle at some of the things I say, but quite a few .. fume
Don't much GIVE a shit, really.
LOOK at every Republican candidate
The Republicans can control the planet with all seventeen in the administration
Trump has the momentum
Why is everyone asking Trump to support the nominee?
Why aren't the OTHERS being "offered" if THEY'D support the nominee ???????
America has already chosen ..... we're pretty good at gut feeling, dead reckonong, by the seat of our pants accomplishments
Damn the torpedoes ... full speed ahead !
Wow dude, your fan girl panties are really getting humidified this morning, aren’t they? First of all, this was a thread about Walker and unions, and as we know, Trump loves unions and would NEVER have signed right to work. Second of all, you don’t have any idea who D Trump will use as what - that’s your girl man crush projection onto your hero. The control the planet thing is just bizarre.
You did make one valid point...that Trump has the momentum. But momentum can reverse just as quickly as it started. And your question about why people are only asking Trump if he’ll support the nominee? Really, are you really that stupid that you don’t know the two obvious answers to that question?
Dumbest post of the week. Most nauseatingly sycophantic post too. Hands down.
That’s okay, Emperor Donald will pardon you.
(Not even the Donald seems to be interested in controlling the whole world.)
you are correct......this is going to get interesting
the phrase sea change comes to mind. the basic conservatism of resisting change comes to mind. the difficulty some might have taking the initiative to actually write a letter comes to mind. a wife’s worry about leaving the union comes to mind. the joy of a big raise in net pay comes to mind.
it is interesting for sure
actually, the Donald is not interested in a lot of things some of his fans are projecting onto him.
He’s got a finger in a very conservative wind right now.
I think that's true, but what I think is EVEN MORE true is this: a lot of conservatives have their fingers in a very Trumpy wind right now, and they're just losing control......
When Trump seems to be the only center of significant political action that is giving more than a nod to conservative desires, it’s easy to pardon him for some remaining lefty gaffes.
The Trump oasis is harder to diss because it’s in the center of a desert.
In a bi cameral system, there is no bi
In a traditionally boring subject, even joe sixpack is talkin' to his buddies down at the bar
For the first time since we were _________ in the ass by an ass with "fundamentally change" ... we really have a shot of putting some people in prison
Get out of your clinical cocoon and flash some passion
God KNOWS America needs it
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