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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(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
GMTA.
The beginning of the end?
You’re not making a lot of sense. Do you really believe workers, any of them should be forced to pay dues to an organization they want nothing to do with?
Voluntary is fine, but in Wisconsin, after Act 1 gave teachers the option of belonging to the union or not, over 2/3 of the opted not to. That’s what should come next.
Praise God (YHVH)! _public_unions_ most be completely terminated. Public servants, serve the people; they should _never_ be unionized. Like it or get a real job.
Read, if you can, the article. It plainly states why.
The courts should force the unions to return the money paid, with interest.
lol
Ya had me thinking there for a second.
I wish.
I’ll be glad just to get someone to MAINTAIN in 2024
Thank you Bruce Rauner
One of the few Illinois Governors that didn’t land in jail also landed a devastating blow against public sector unions.
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Good news...Unions more corrupt than the Mafia...
The courts should force the candidates who pocketed the money to return it (with interest).
This situation is particularly disgraceful with public employee unions; they’ve ruined NJ, NY, CA, IL...
How about a class action lawsuit to get back all of their previous dues that they were forced to pay?
WINNING!
In Salem, Oregon, SEIU is selling their headquarters. Can no longer afford it.
I still remember from 50 years ago when my union boss put salt into the paint I was using to paint a ship.
bribery of public officials in union states down 29%
Y’all didn’t catch my sarcasm. But that’s okay because it’s all written in plain text. Obviously I do not want the politically activist union leadership to benefit by (and squander) the money of workers being FORCED to pay. I am actually sympathetic to one argument made for it, which is that those who come later after unions have done the hard work paving the way for them to benefit, but just like any organization except those that are run with the utmost diligence and focus, their lifecycle involves descending into either massive inefficiency and bloat, or top-down corruption and exploitaton, or both. So why should everyone be forced to contribute to that.
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