Posted on 07/01/2013 7:54:01 AM PDT by george76
A group of California teachers is preparing for a Supreme Court battle to overturn forced union dues in a groundbreaking lawsuit filed in June.
For nearly three decades, the Supreme Court has allowed closed-shop unionism, in which public employees must pay dues to labor groups handling collective bargaining negotiations.
The Supreme Court established Beck Rights in 1988 allowing workers to opt out of union dues for political activities, while continuing to pay for union negotiating expenses. The teachers are hoping to take that battle one step further by putting an end to all coercive union dues.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
they will make opting out as hard as possible and then the thugs will start showing up at your house
How much are teachers’ annual dues in California?
Gov’t union breaking, will not happen.
Years ago my cousin worked for a state agency. She said that she didn’t want to join the union but did because dues was removed from her pay whether she joined or not.
Freedom OF Speech also means Freedom FROM Speech. No one should be forced to contribute time, effort, or money to support speech that they oppose.
Well said
Fox news needs to hire someone who knows the difference between a closed shop and a union shop.
You’re right, of course. I was about to say they’d actually have a chance in the 8th.
My Dad used to say that he’d spent thirty years in inner city schools, then looked carefully at his certificate one day and realized it said “teacher” not “warden”, so he quit.
The 8th grade I was in had gotten a real bad reputation of unruliness and trashing teachers. The worst of us was Freddie. It was well known that he could and would really hurt you in a fight, with relish. And he was clever in frustrating the teachers, who had all been women.
So the principal hired a WWII P-51 pilot, a man that had been a reform school teacher for a few years. On the fall school opening day, his first words to us were:
"I'm Mr. Peck. You are mine and this is my room. If any of you boys give me any trouble, you will meet Freddie after school. Freddie, if you give me any trouble, you will meet me after school. Do you all understand this, as of right now? Yes, or -- No?"
There were no "Noes" and we spent the rest of our school careers as governable class members. Mr. Peck later became Vice Principal. He attended our 35th high school class reunion, having finished his years in that school.
Funny that teachers don’t want to be forced into paying the wasteful and corrupt union, but they cry foul when parents don’t want to be forced into sending their kids to inferior and decrepit schools.
Really? In the Socialist State of California (SSOC). Kinda surprised.
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