[TnGOP]

I'm with him up to the point of doing away with public employee unions. As a FEDGOV employee, I absolutely detest our union. They are absolutely the worst. However, they are all that keeps out of control power trip managers from running over everyone in their paths. If we had no union, there would be no white people left in my facility.

The managers reign supreme. Without the union, they would hire friends and relatives, and promote them regardless of skills. In turn, they would drive anyone out that looked at them wrong. "Going Postal" would once again become commonplace. If you haven't worked in the Fed Gov, you have no idea what we deal with, so keep your snarky comments to yourselves.

[conservativejoy]

You are absolutely correct that government agencies are terribly abusive. I was a manager and more than once I had upper level managers order me to do something that violated the contract. I couldn’t disobey a direct order, so I told them they would need them to put that in writing. They backed down.

I know that the four unions whose employees I supervised did not require membership and I haven’t found any union in any federal agency that is compulsory. I don’t agree with compulsory unions and support a national right to work law.

I think teachers unions are harmful to the educational system and should be abolished, along with the Dept. of Education.

Beyond that, the idea of not deducting dues from employees paychecks that have CHOSEN to belong to a union is just harassment. If I were in a union and that passed, I would have my dues auto deducted from my bank account.