It's wrong for you conservatives to try to weaken our worker's rights by limiting the amount of money we use to bribe Democrat politicians!
Posted on 01/08/2016 10:34:09 AM PST by Zakeet
Harlan Elrich is a high school teacher in California, and that means he must pay about $970 a year to a labor union. He teaches math, and he said the system did not add up.
"I get to choose what movie I want to go see," Mr. Elrich said. "I get to choose what church I want to go to. I get to choose what gym I want to join."
He should have the same choice, he said, about whether to support a union.
Mr. Elrich and nine other California teachers have sued the union, saying that they are being forced to pay money to support positions with which they disagree, in violation of the First Amendment. Their lawsuit, if it is successful, will be the culmination of a decades-long legal campaign to undermine public unions.
And there is good reason to think they will win.
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"It's scary," said Steve Rosenthal, a former A.F.L.-C.I.O. political director, noting that "most of the growth in the labor movement over the last few decades has been in the public sector."
"It's part of a concerted effort trying to dismantle the labor movement and to weaken worker's rights in this country," he added. "At the same that we are facing a near crisis in the elimination of the middle class, people are also trying to destroy one of the main vehicles to the middle class."
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It's wrong for you conservatives to try to weaken our worker's rights by limiting the amount of money we use to bribe Democrat politicians!
Yes! About damn time. I have helped a couple teachers in SoCal get out of dues except those for collective bargaining.
Does the teachers union in California have some sort of exclusive right to bargain for all teachers? Or can another union represent teachers in the state?
All your taxpay base are belong to us!
I can't speak for California, but in my neck of the woods the membership would have to vote to decertify the current union, then vote again to join the other union.
A major obstacle to all that is that most unions have no-raid agreements with each other. So the new union would make it very clear, from the beginning, that it would not accept those members.
A second obstacle is that union elections are usually corrupt. Any decertification election would be rigged to fail from the get-go.
Bank Fees = Bad
Union Fees = Good
This completes your Daily Democrat Party Primer.
My thinking was why don't a group of teachers get together and form a tea party union. I doubt it could happen but it might be fun to try.
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