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What happens if you don't join the union?
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<blockquote data-quote="SloppyJoes7" data-source="post: 793843" data-attributes="member: 31997"><p>Financial reasons would be a big part of it. However, they wouldn't be the only part.</p><p></p><p>The UPS union doesn't sound too bad, so it won't make a good example for my next point: instead, I'll use the teacher's union. I hate the teacher's union, (NEA being the best example). Again, my wife, mother, and mother-in-law are teachers, and I'm friends with other teachers, so I'm very familiar with the subject.</p><p></p><p>If I were a teacher, I would not want to be a member in principle. I hate 90% of what the union stands for, and would not want to be associated with it in any way. The weaker it is, the better, even if that means I had to pay the agency fee. If my wife got a job with a local public school, she would never join the union. We both hate it, and we both believe it harms students, harms public education, and is detrimental to our children and our country's future.</p><p></p><p>I do <strong>NOT </strong>have such strong feelings about other unions, and it would therefore depend on the situation. I'd <strong>probably </strong>not join the teamsters or other similar unions, and pay the agency fee, because that $5 I'd save would be $5 less spent on political ads and lobbyists I disagree with. Again, it would be in principle, because 95% of the time, unions support candidates I do not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SloppyJoes7, post: 793843, member: 31997"] Financial reasons would be a big part of it. However, they wouldn't be the only part. The UPS union doesn't sound too bad, so it won't make a good example for my next point: instead, I'll use the teacher's union. I hate the teacher's union, (NEA being the best example). Again, my wife, mother, and mother-in-law are teachers, and I'm friends with other teachers, so I'm very familiar with the subject. If I were a teacher, I would not want to be a member in principle. I hate 90% of what the union stands for, and would not want to be associated with it in any way. The weaker it is, the better, even if that means I had to pay the agency fee. If my wife got a job with a local public school, she would never join the union. We both hate it, and we both believe it harms students, harms public education, and is detrimental to our children and our country's future. I do [B]NOT [/B]have such strong feelings about other unions, and it would therefore depend on the situation. I'd [B]probably [/B]not join the teamsters or other similar unions, and pay the agency fee, because that $5 I'd save would be $5 less spent on political ads and lobbyists I disagree with. Again, it would be in principle, because 95% of the time, unions support candidates I do not. [/QUOTE]
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