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Marine Faces Termination for Refusing to Pay Union Fee
Foxnews.com ^
| June 09, 2010
| Joshua Rhett Miller
Posted on 06/09/2010 12:20:53 PM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anarchy; liberalfascism; socialism; supportourtroops; unions; unionthugs
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I'm disgusted by the notion that my employment would be contingent upon me having to join a union or else paying a fee.
To: LoneStarGI
Union “fees” or “dues” are nothing more than extortion.
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:22:29 PM PDT
by
roaddog727
(It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
To: LoneStarGI
Forced union membership as a requirement for employment should be illegal.
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:22:29 PM PDT
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: LoneStarGI
Union thugs need the money to bribe other thugs, many in politics.
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:22:47 PM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
((B.?) Hussein (Obama?Soetoro?Dunham?) Change America Will Die From.)
To: LoneStarGI
Unions consider themselves slave owners ... and slave masters.
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:23:38 PM PDT
by
OldNavyVet
(One trillion days, at 365 days per year, is 2,739,726,027 years ... almost 3 billion years.)
To: HonestConservative; holdonnow; Just Lori; kristinn; SoCalPol; socialismisinsidious; rush
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:24:32 PM PDT
by
AliVeritas
(Pray, Pray, Pray. Stop Barrystroika.)
To: pnh102
All states should be right to work states, getting rid of “union shop” state laws would fix this country overnight.
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:25:12 PM PDT
by
Thurston_Howell_III
(Ahoy polloi... where did you come from, a scotch ad?)
To: LoneStarGI
The main business of any union is to collect union dues.
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:25:31 PM PDT
by
SmithL
(Don't blame me, I voted for DeVore!)
To: pnh102
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.
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:25:41 PM PDT
by
LoneStarGI
(Vegetarian: Old Indian word for "BAD HUNTER.")
To: Thurston_Howell_III
That is precisely why it won’t happen.
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:26:44 PM PDT
by
TruthConquers
(Delendae sunt publicae scholae)
To: TruthConquers
We need to have a few more “days”...one could be bring a machine gun to your union meeting day.
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:27:57 PM PDT
by
Mouton
To: LoneStarGI
This sounds like something worth starting a legal fund raiser over and getting an good attorney who will kick take the union to task!
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:28:37 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:30:22 PM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants"-Albert Camus)
To: LoneStarGI
That’s why Florida and most Southern States are “Right to Work” states. No union can force you to join or pay “fees”...............
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:30:35 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(No, Obama's not the Antichrist. He's just some guy in the neighborhood.............)
To: LoneStarGI
Is there anything GOOD about unions?
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:30:42 PM PDT
by
lesko
To: 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 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...
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:30:51 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: pnh102
It is in “Right to Work” states, like FLORIDA..................
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:31:29 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(No, Obama's not the Antichrist. He's just some guy in the neighborhood.............)
To: lesko
private company unions? sometimes.
gubermint unions? no.
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:32:32 PM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants"-Albert Camus)
To: LoneStarGI
Then you & yours should be ready to fight very hard against “Card Check”.
NObama & his minions have not dropped that idea.
To: LoneStarGI
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.
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posted on
06/09/2010 12:33:12 PM PDT
by
Clock King
(Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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