Marine Faces Termination for Refusing to Pay Union Fee

Foxnews.com ^ | June 09, 2010 | Joshua Rhett Miller

[LoneStarGI]

A retired U.S. Marine who runs a Massachusetts high school's ROTC program says he faces termination if he doesn't pay a $500 union fee by next week, a levy he refuses to pay because he already receives medical and dental benefits from the military.

Maj. Stephen Godin, senior naval science instructor at the Naval Junior ROTC Unit at North High School in Worcester, Mass., told FoxNews.com he has been teaching for the Educational Association for Worcester for 15 years -- including 14 at North High School -- without having to join the union or pay an "agency fee" toward the cost of collective bargaining.

[LoneStarGI]

I'm disgusted by the notion that my employment would be contingent upon me having to join a union or else paying a fee.

[roaddog727]

Union “fees” or “dues” are nothing more than extortion.

[pnh102]

Forced union membership as a requirement for employment should be illegal.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Union thugs need the money to bribe other thugs, many in politics.

[OldNavyVet]

Unions consider themselves slave owners ... and slave masters.

[AliVeritas]

ping

[Thurston_Howell_III]

All states should be right to work states, getting rid of “union shop” state laws would fix this country overnight.

[SmithL]

The main business of any union is to collect union dues.

[LoneStarGI]

The Major even makes the point in the article. He’s been working for the schools for 15 years and was never part of a union. Now all of a sudden he gets a letter threatening to terminate his employment if he doesn’t pay a fee for the union. That’s extortion. Even more disgusting is that the superintendent and other officials are too cowardly to comment on this because they don’t want to get on the union’s black list.

[TruthConquers]

That is precisely why it won’t happen.

[Mouton]

We need to have a few more “days”...one could be bring a machine gun to your union meeting day.

[Jack Hydrazine]

This sounds like something worth starting a legal fund raiser over and getting an good attorney who will kick take the union to task!

[WOBBLY BOB]

http://www.nrtw.org/

[Red Badger]

That’s why Florida and most Southern States are “Right to Work” states. No union can force you to join or pay “fees”...............

[lesko]

Is there anything GOOD about unions?

[VOA]

A retired U.S. Marine who runs a Massachusetts high school's ROTC
program says he faces termination if he doesn't pay a $500 EXTORTION BRIBE
union fee by next week, a levy he refuses to pay because
he already receives medical and dental benefits from the military.

Just an amplification to explain the situation...

[Red Badger]

It is in “Right to Work” states, like FLORIDA..................

[WOBBLY BOB]

private company unions? sometimes.
gubermint unions? no.

[ridesthemiles]

Then you & yours should be ready to fight very hard against “Card Check”.

NObama & his minions have not dropped that idea.

[Clock King]

Straight out of the Soviet Union. Read “We The Living”. In the early years of the USSR, you HAD to join a union to get a job.