In 2005, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels stripped collective bargaining from state employees through an executive order.
According to numbers from the Indiana State Personnel Office, there were 35,000 state employees in 2005. Twenty-five-thousand of those employees were covered under collective bargaining, and 16,408 paid union dues.
For 2011, Indiana has 28,700 state employees and 1,490 pay union dues, a 90 percent reduction in dues-paying members.
We tried to bring “paycheck protection” reform to CA in ‘98 and again in ‘05. The unions killed us at the ballot box. A public employee doesn’t even have to be a member of the union but must still pay the dues thanks to law signed by Arnold’s recalled predecessor.