[Mygirlsmom]

From what I’ve heard, the increased pension and health insurance contributions are relatively small potatoes compared to the thing that has the teachers, as a union, in an uproar — namely, the proposed weakening of their collective bargaining power (limited to wage negotiations only...imagine that). This essay seems to have missed the bigger story.

This is the giant donkey in the room that no one is talking about. The highly compensated union leadership will pull out all the stops so as to not lose their extortion power - not only over their Democratic whore politicians, but also the captive union membership at large.

[lakeman]

The automatic deduction of union dues through payroll would cease also. This is a bigger problem for the unions. When the workers have to write checks the unions will have to become debt collectors.