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To: heterosupremacist
Am I mistaken?

Yes.

Right to work does not mean you can not be part of a union.

It just means you can not be forced to join a union.

Here in Michigan we had a particularly nasty ploy, the SEIU successfully lobbied for unpaid family members to be classified as "home health care workers."

The 44,000 people affected never wanted to be part of a union. Why would they? There was no benefit to them. And they did not realize they were even being unionized.

When they got a letter from for the SEIU they tossed it as junk mail.

That was the only communication they had that they were being unionized.

Dues were then automatically collected from the care recipients' Medicare or Medicaid checks. The union ripped them off to the tune of 34 million.

Now mind you these people were not being paid in the first place. So the money was coming from the money that was suppose to provide treatment for the person they were caring for.

It takes a special kind of lower life form to rip off the sick and dying.

When right to work passed (and this was one reason it did pass) the union could no longer steal from the disabled. But they refused to pay the money they stole for doing exactly NOTHING.

That is what unions do.

And that is what Right to Work does.

It prevents a specially protected class from forcing people to give them money at gun point.

44 posted on 02/24/2018 4:08:53 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

In NYC there is a butchers union, I worked on designing their new HQ back in the 80’s.

Total Mob control, they had a black guy as President for appearances sake, but the crazy looking Mafia guy who sat in on the meetings was clearly in charge.

Bottom line is that in non-right to work states you pay the union or you don’t work.

By the way, Trumps FAILURE to DISBAND FEDERAL WORKERS UNIONS is not MAGA.


47 posted on 02/24/2018 4:18:34 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear; heterosupremacist

Unions appeared and got legal support in the wake of abuses. When the abuses went away the unions had to either dissolve or gin up more and more grievances to justify their existence.

The H1B is the new abuse, but unions don’t want to take that on as a cause. Why? The payola. Don’t lobby against the foreign imports if they can be taxed.


49 posted on 02/24/2018 4:22:20 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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