Posted on 06/23/2012 4:39:59 AM PDT by Kaslin
First, a mea culpa: I'm several weeks late to this story, but it's so significant that I figured I'd adopt a "better late than never" approach and bring this to your attention anyway:
Wisconsin membership in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees - the state's second-largest public-sector union after the National Education Association, which represents teachers - fell to 28,745 in February from 62,818 in March 2011, according to a person who has viewed Afscme's figures. A spokesman for Afscme declined to comment. Much of that decline came from Afscme Council 24, which represents Wisconsin state workers, whose membership plunged by two-thirds to 7,100 from 22,300 last year.
A provision of the Walker law that eliminated automatic dues collection hurt union membership. When a public-sector contract expires the state now stops collecting dues from the affected workers' paychecks unless they say they want the dues taken out, said Peter Davis, general counsel of the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission. In many cases, Afscme dropped members from its rolls after it failed to get them to affirm they want dues collected, said a labor official familiar with Afscme's figures. In a smaller number of cases, membership losses were due to worker layoffs.
Maddow: Without unions, ‘Democrats do not have a way to compete’ [VIDEO]
So [government sector unions] they go away — in terms of whether or not that corporate money that’s disproportionately supporting Republicans can be answered — at least on the Democratic side, before there is some kind of reform, Democrats do not have a way to compete in terms of big outside money in elections. And that is the reality now in Wisconsin. It is the reality in states where they have essentially eliminated unions rights...I think, structurally, that’s a pretty dire electoral situation for Democrats.”
These Wisconsin Gov’t workers hate paying taxes same as everyone else. So now they are refusing to pay this tax called union membership dues which can be a thousand a year. Union honchos are going to have to go on a diet and layoff some of the unneeded staff. F’em!
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Sorry, just trying to have fun.
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Many hold that decimate simply means to "greatly reduce" although some adhere to your belief that it means to reduce by 1/10th (i.e. from 100 to 90). However, there are others in the camp that says that decimate actually means not to reduce by a tenth but to reduce to a tenth. For example, from 100 to 10.
As long as the supply of turkey and cheese sandwiches at our nation's delicatessens hold out, the debate shall rage on and on, with no resolution.
If this is the tenor of decisions from the SC lately, then I have to think that the big “enchilada”...Obama care is going down hard!
Lesson to future presidents who diss SC justices during State of the Union speeches....revenge is a dish best served cold!
Lets see 1000 dues dollars not being paid by 40, ooo ex union members. That’s 40 million dollars that can be put back into the economy instead of politicians coffers. Now that’s a stimulus I can live with!
I also had a problem with the queen’s 60 year “jubilee”. Originally it meant 50 years. It has morphed into a party or celebration or whatever anybody wants it to mean.
My wife and I will soon celebrate our 46 year wedding anniversary jubilee.
And a “deluge” without any water.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2898742/posts?page=1
more union thievery...from the members of the union
Many union members don’t NEED to be woke up. I once worked for a Government shop and was given no choice. You will have money taken out of your paycheck whether you want it taken out or not. Either pay Union dues or donate to a charity of the UNION’S choice, but you will pay either way . The disgrace was that it was a simple shake-down. The unions robbed you of money you earned with the Government acting as the ENFORCER by taking the money out before you even received your check. Many union members don’t belong by choice but by force. Walker merely returned the power to the people!
Seems I recall reading something about Great Leader wanting to unionize the military. Can’t establish the veracity of that report since I can’t recall where I read it. But the current winds would seem to limit his attempts at doing so. Funny how the pro-choice people are all for mandatory union membership.
I was a NATO evaluator for what were called Tactical Evaluations back in the 80’s. They were supposed to be three days in length, under combat like conditions. However, for the Dutch, we had to shut down at 5:00pm to 8:00 am, why, Union rules of course!
-—Could union menbers ACTUALLY be waking up???——
I’m guessing that it’s a free-rider problem. They want union bennies AND they don’t want to pay dues.
Whatever it takes.
What keeps the Dem party going are the unions, the welfare agitators, and the university people who live off government grants. The common denominator is that they are using tax money and government support in order to operate against us.
Scott Walker's model needs to be expanded into other states. In any state, when Republicans gain control of the legislature and governorship, the first act should be to cut off the unions from government support and terminate their ability to force dues collection.
If Michigan went Right To Work, it would shake the power of the Dem Party to its foundations.
And thugs don't work for free. Reduce union funding, and they lose the ability to keep lots of thugs on the payroll.
Regardless of the opinions of English teachers, the origin of the word came from the Romans, who practiced decimation as a punishment for cowardly Roman Army units:
A unit selected for punishment by decimation was divided into groups of ten; each group drew lots (Sortition), and the soldier on whom the lot fell was executed by his nine comrades
I have no idea of what you mean...are you saying that the fact that the state withholds union dues is the fault of the state???????I don't think so!!
Indiana had an executive order directing compulsory dues collection. Mitch Daniels rescinded the executive order and the unions died.
WIsconsin had alaw requiring compulsory dues collection. They had to change the law, and the unions are now dying.
In both cases state law or order imposed fascist rules on state and/or local employees.
So, yes, that was the fault of the state.
the compulsory order is due to a Democrat (bayh) being intimidated by union thugs to do so. While it may have the force of law, it was not enacted by the legislature and is totally due to union intimidation
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