Posted on 09/04/2017 8:01:57 PM PDT by TBP
The basic case for right-to-work is simple: Forcing workers to pay money to a union they don’t support is wrong. This is why polling consistently shows that Americans overwhelmingly support right-to-work, including strong majorities of independent, Republican and Democratic voters.
There are other reasons to support right-to-work, too. Workplace freedom is an economic engine, with private-sector job creation rates in right-to-work states double those in forced-unionism states between 2006 and 2016.
Plus, right-to-work laws make union officials more accountable to rank-and-file members. Without right-to-work, employees must pay up or be fired. With voluntary dues, workers can withhold financial support from a union that is corrupt, ineffective or putting its institutional interests ahead of what is best for workers. Right-to-work is a defender of workers’ rights — union members and nonunion alike.
Don’t take my word for it. Among proponents of this view was Samuel Gompers, who founded the American Federation of Labor in 1886 and served as the longest-tenured president of the group that would later become the AFL-CIO. As president of the AFL in 1916, Gompers wrote, “The workers of America adhere to voluntary institutions in preference to compulsory systems which are held to be not only impractical but a menace to their rights, welfare and their liberty.”
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I don’t have a problem with mandatory union dues, I have a problem with the legality of collective bargaining.
The most significant provision of the 1935 Labor Relations Act was to exempt labor unions from the Sherman Antitrust Act. Suppliers of manufacturing materials can’t collude to fix prices on what they sell to manufacturers, manufacturers can’t collude to fix the prices on what they sell to the public, but the unions _CAN_ collude to fix the price of labor. Which, absent the LRA, would be prosecuteable as an anti-trust crime.
All you need to know about the LRA is that it was passed during The Great Depression by two Democrat-majority houses of Congress and signed by the first all-fascism, all-the-time, Democrat president, Franklin Delano Rooseveltski.
Union strikes should be criminalized as extortion. Repeal the Labor Relations Act and union dues problem will resolve itself.
I’m, in general, pro-union. That being said...
You want to join a union, go join a union. No workplace vote should be necessary. Just go ahead and join. It’s a free country. And send your union rep to bargain for you (and anyone else who joined the union with you).
Now, your employer can bargain with your union rep, or he can refuse to even talk to your rep. Again, it’s a free country. Then you can either strike, or go back to work.
And if you don’t want to join a union, don’t join. No workplace vote should force you to join. It’s a free country.
Quick answer, only three words :
"Richard Trumka, sucks"
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and only represents Richard Trumka $$$ interests !
Happy Labor Day Holiday !
Bump!
I like your idea.
If you’re in a non-Right-to-Work state, are employed in a closed shop, and have no desire to support a union even at the level of agency fees, apparently (if one can trust the info in the link below) you can have yourself declared the equivalent of a “conscientious objector”, and have your dues or agency fees sent to a charity instead: http://choosecharity.org
You can also get the portion of your dues back that are used for political purposes.
Scala was killed right before a union case. No better than anyifa. Unions support the destruction of America in every sense of the word. Soul for sale.
Seriously, SEIU, you support that?
What I object to is being forced to pay the portion of union dues that is used for political contributions. I’m speaking from experience in Teachers Unions. When union heads started choosing winners and losers, the result was federal and state money overwhelming education.
It would certainly be the demise of unions as we know htem
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