Union demands credit card numbers from members

The Washington Examiner ^ | 6-20-12 | Joel Gehrke

[afraidfortherepublic]

One school employee union in Michigan is demanding that members turn over bank account and credit card information so that the union can automatically claim monthly dues after the state voted to stop deducting the money on behalf of the union.

“Debbie Bence, president of the Plymouth-Canton Cafeteria Association, sent a letter to her union members on June 4 stating that the dues had to be paid as a condition of employment,” the Capitol Confidential (Mich.) reports. Members can also pay dues in full at the beginning of the year.

Her demand came after the Michigan Supreme Court found that the state’s practice of automatically deducting dues on behalf of the union’s political action committee violated campaign finance laws; the state legislature also passed a bill ending the automatic deduction of union dues that is under contention in federal court.

In Wisconsin, the state AFL-CIO lost over half its members after Gov. Scott Walker, R, and the state legislature ended the automatic deduction of dues from worker paychecks. Bence’s union chapter is part of the Michigan Education Association, one of the most powerful education unions in the country.

[Caulkhead]

That’s appalling - is there no political effort to abolish such Marxist ‘principles’ in these states?

[rabidralph]

Michigan could use more honey badgers.

[Political Junkie Too]

Next they'll want their Facebook passwords. That's when people will REALLY revolt.

-PJ