Posted on 05/14/2019 9:27:47 AM PDT by yoe
Francisco Molina, a social worker for more than 12 years in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, grew dissatisfied with his government employee union and tried to resign from it last summer rather than continue to pay dues. State law wouldn’t let him leave the union, and taking a stand cost him his job.
[snip] “But my personal values never matched the union’s,” Molina said. “The further I got up the chain of command, I realized it was all an illusion and that what they were presenting to the rank and file was not true.”
When SEIU Local 668 asked Molina and co-workers to sign a new membership card in January 2018, he balked after carefully reviewing the language on the card.
[snip] It’s not just that leaders of public sector unions in Pennsylvania are reluctant to allow Molina and other members to resign, but that a state law locks in government employees to pay union dues against their will.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...
cashing the union’s campaign checks?
This is going on all over the country. God will honor this man for standing up for his values.
He’s got people who do that.
This goes WAAAAAAAY back before Tax-It-All-Tommy-Wolf.
Unions have had a seat at the Harrisburg seat of corruption for seven or eight decades. The deck is stacked in their favor in many ways in this state.
Hopefully SCOTUS will intervene.
Public sector Unions should be illegal.
Why isn’t it voluntary to join a union?
WUT! Union leaders lie to their members. Butt, butt, butt..........
Beck v CWA.
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Ah, the Purple People Beaters....no surprise here
Part of it was BJ Clinton with great fanfare announced that “it was much simpler for the government to negotiate with it’s employees as bargaining units than individuals.” I know. I was an SEIU Local Vice President in my last couple years as a Democrat. I was there. In fact, it was what partially woke me up to the perils of Democrats. Oral sex in the Oval Office carried me the rest of the way.
I was in the same situation for 25 years. The problem is that even in places where the law allows people not to be in the union and still keep their job... the unions single these people out and make life very difficult for those who resist. And union officials are not choir boys. The guy who was our union president when I retired was my 3rd man when he first came on. He was a psycho who even though he was a local boy, had adopted a New York accent and told me repeatedly that what he really wanted to be was “wise guy”. He watched all those mafia shows and fantasized about being in the mafia and killing people. No one to this day scares me more.
The subject of this article went about things the wrong way. Rather than quit the union, he should have worked from within. When I worked for the public sector I noticed that union officers had quickly risen from lowly jobs to higher jobs. That was disgusting enough. I became active, and others elected me as an officer of our chapter. The other officers were gaming the system, in collusion with employers, to obtain higher salaries and perks mostly for themselves while benefitting the union members. I fought the union from inside to steer them away from bad practices as long as I could until leaving. One of those practices was assisting other unrelated unions with resources and people, a cash drain on us that was unrelated to our member's needs. Unions exist to obtain power and political action; helping member's settle grievances is secondary and often ignored.
The entire solution to this pillagery of taxpayer money.
JFK. EO.
Public unions are one of the reasons why the Swamp is overwhelmingly leftist, and virtually immune to termination.
JFK was no conservative, despite efforts to sanitize him.
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