[Beave Meister]

Unions have over stayed their usefulness of the early years.... All they can think about is their pay and longevity...

[certrtwngnut]

One has seen the light. 20 million more to go.
What fools.

[cripplecreek]

Found this stitched note on the wall of a classroom display in a museum a couple weeks ago.

[Don Corleone]

Let every teacher refuse to pay and see what the then powerless unions can do. It would be like the mass civil disobedience operations of the 60’s and 70’s that rendered law enforcement moot.

[Jacquerie]

Our local school system employees each received a $2,000 “stimulus” bonus from our Marxist government last year.

The $10 union demand is only the first of at least several more to come. Hussein will need a mountain of it buy another term.

At least we have the pleasure of knowing our tax money will be used to slice our own throats.

[sanjuanbob]

My next door neighbor is a union teacher. Hates the union and is a good republican. She keeps quiet at school but is one of us when she gets home. Wonder how many of them there are out there?

[GOPJ]

Atlanta teachers not only didn't teach their students, they also cheated to make it look like they had... then they accepted extra funding for having done such a great job.

They should have gone to jail...

[newzjunkey]

NEA has 3.2 million members? $10 hike? That's an instant $32 million for Obama.

He pays $900 in dues per year? If others pay comparably that's $2,880,000,000 in annual dues. Good Grief! That's more than Facebook's 2010 revenue.

In California, thanks to law signed by Democrat Governor Grey Davis, public employees MUST pay union dues regardless of membership.

[subterfuge]

The 10 bucks is PROTECTION money. It’s organized, but legal, extortion, just like with the MOB.

[T Ruth]

“In 1988, the Supreme Court, in Communications Workers of America v. Beck
(hereinafter referred to as Beck), ruled against organized labor and held that non-
union employees could not be required to pay full union dues if some of those funds
were to be used for activities unrelated to collective bargaining. Under § 8(a)(3) of
the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), a labor union and an employer can enter
into a contractual agreement requiring all employees in the bargaining unit to pay
union dues as a condition of employment no matter whether such employees became
union members or not.

“The Supreme Court in Beck concluded that § 8(a)(3) of the
NLRA (1) does not permit a labor union to expend funds on non-related union
activities, such as lobbying and political activities, when dues-paying non-member
employees object and (2) authorizes only those dues and fees necessary to the duties
relating to labor-management relations.

“In 1991 the Supreme Court in Lehnert v.
Ferris Faculty Association, expanded the scope of the Beck holdings to include public
sector employees so that such employees may not be compelled to subsidize political
or ideological activities of public employee unions.”

From: http://congressionalresearch.com/97-618/document.php?study=The+Use+of+Labor+Union+Dues+for+Political+Purposes+A+Legal+Analysis (footnotes omitted)

For nuances, see the text at the link.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I have a member of my extended family who is a retired teacher. By all appearances he is a solid Tea Party conservative.

Which really irritates me because up until the day he retired he would swallow the Union party line hook, line and sinker. Even if he did not really agree with them he’d go along because “it was about getting the money”.

Guess he’s already got his pension so it’s safe to become a Conservative now.