[Shethink13]

2) legislation to require unions to obtain authorization from each dues-paying worker before spending those dues on activities unrelated to collective bargaining.

(Done by executive order)

Wrong! Not done by executive order. The executive order merely reinstates the enforcement of the Beck decision, which simply states that a union worker has a right to be informed and object to his dues being used for certain political purposes. In reality this means nothing...so, a union worker objects and the union boss thugs say, your objection is duly noted, proceed with the big donations to the Dems.

It is a far cry from the union bosses actually having to get written permission from the members to use their dues for political purposes. This provision was either left out or voted down in the Senate as a "poison pill" to passing CFR.

Since you are so interested in having all the true facts, just thought you'd like to be made aware...

[Texasforever]

Read the EO it is there on post #73. Then read the Beck decision and the "rights" that decision laid out for members withholding a portion of their dues equal to the percentage the Union uses for the objectionable purposes. Why would Clinton make an end run around a Supreme Court decision if the Beck case was a toothless tiger? Either know your facts or don’t try to argue them.

On April 13, 1992, in what many consider to be nothing more than an act of political opportunism, President Bush issued Executive Order 12800, which requires all federal contractors to inform their employees of their "Beck rights." The order stems from a 1988 U.S. Supreme Court opinion, Communication Workers of America v. Beck, in which the Court declared that employees forced to pay union dues under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) do not have to contribute to a union's partisan political activities. The Communication Workers of America had been using as much as 79 percent of Harry Beck's dues for such activities, almost all in support of Democratic party candidates.