Posted on 04/10/2019 1:34:16 PM PDT by blam
Two powerful, left-wing public unions lost over 90 percent of non-member fees after the Supreme Court ruled against forcing non-members to pay union dues.
In other words, until June of 2018 we lived in a country where public sector workers who chose not to join their respective unions were still forced to pay union dues, which are called agency fees.
These agency fees represented 70 to 80 percent of union dues and were forcibly removed from the pay checks of public workers who wanted nothing to do with far-left unions that spend billions of dollars every year to elect Democrats.
The Supreme Court ruled that these mandatory union dues violated the free speech of non-members, who had been forced through these un-American agency fees to contribute to political campaigns they wanted no part of.
Overall, while I have no issue with unionizing in the private sector, public unions are a cancer on our democracy, a scam that launders taxpayer dollars through these public unions and into Democrat campaign coffers.
The idea that public sector workers were forced to pay these dues was outrageous and the Supreme Court did the exact right thing in putting a stop to it.
The best news is that this liberation of the working man has been devastating to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), who lost millions of dollars and 210,000 agency-fee payers in 2018.
Overall, while these public sector unions still have millions of voluntary members, AFSCME lost 98 percent of its 112,233 nonmembers (now only 2,200 pay agency fees). The SEIU lost 94 percent of its 104,501 nonmembers (now only 5,800 pay).
This does not mean SEIU and AFSCME have lost their power. With 1.9 million and 1.3 million voluntary members...
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BUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is going in the wrong direction!
In the U.S., the goal is always to collect more money without an option.
Can I opt out of paying for public schools if I will never use them? Can I opt out of paying for social security and not collect the benefit? No. Bernie wants to force me and everyone to pay for a crappy government health provider program, without alternative healthcare options. He even wants us all to pay for everyone’s crappy university entitlement. So why should government employees get the option not to pay the bosses?
Horrible that this tyranny of the minority was allowed to continue for so long.
Just wait until Nancy hears about this ,LOL
We’ll see how many “voluntary members” remain now that opting out is a choice.
I’m surprised it’s this much. I figured some brave individuals would opt out, then lose their jobs as a signal to the other union workers to think twice about doing the same.
WHy are 5800 still paying?
Maybe bigger changes are on the way brother.
After 2020, Trump can go even more wild (in other words restore the constitution) than he is now able to with meuller done.
There are situations where workers need the union for legal protection, in potentially dangerous or lawsuit possibility situations. Ex: when I was substituting, union legal representation was an optional expense. It would’ve been foolish not to have it.
1- more winning. 2-just think how great his third term is going to be
Hahaha! Winning! Government “workers” should not be allowed to unionize. I believe it was started by Executive Order...end it that way.
You’re absolutely right, but the good news is that those government unions will not have the money to lobby for more government benefits for themselves.
Government unions were a bad idea from the start. Even FDR was against them, if I recall.
who cares, they’re stupid leftards
Winning! More please.
JoMa
Or they are still being intimidated. Or there are pockets that are refusing to abide by the SCOTUS ruling. Or they don't know they can opt out.
Or they are still being intimidated. Or there are pockets that are refusing to abide by the SCOTUS ruling. Or they don't know they can opt out.
Sorry, the only “choice” the government gives you is the choice to murder your baby. Everything else is mandatory.
This is devastating to them - so much win.
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