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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Spider" data-source="post: 1430673" data-attributes="member: 52461"><p>Your pathetic denial of any negative impact on the union is absurd and even you know that. A local union relies on it's dues revenue to remain operational. If a bargaining unit decertifies the union, that is one less unit that requires representation. Depending on the size of that bargaining unit, the union may cut back on it's staff in order to remain operational for the members of the other bargaining units. However, RTW freeloaders do not represent a decline in the representation provided...but they do represent a decline in the revenue that pays for that representation. </p><p></p><p>Assume for a moment that you own the Smurf Widget Company. Your customer base, 100 manufacturers who purchase 1,000 widgets each per month. Your state legislature passes a law that requires you to provide those widgets for free to any customer who doesn't feel like paying for their widgets. 10 of your customers tell you that they no longer want to pay for their widgets. You're still making the same amount of widgets...you're still shipping the same number of widgets...but your revenue is down by 10%. The next month, another 10 of your customers jumps on the free widget bandwagon. Eventually, you're forced to shut the place down or merge with another widget company. Negative impact? You bet! There's no such thing as a free lunch, Smurf, or a free widget. Somebody is paying.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Spider, post: 1430673, member: 52461"] Your pathetic denial of any negative impact on the union is absurd and even you know that. A local union relies on it's dues revenue to remain operational. If a bargaining unit decertifies the union, that is one less unit that requires representation. Depending on the size of that bargaining unit, the union may cut back on it's staff in order to remain operational for the members of the other bargaining units. However, RTW freeloaders do not represent a decline in the representation provided...but they do represent a decline in the revenue that pays for that representation. Assume for a moment that you own the Smurf Widget Company. Your customer base, 100 manufacturers who purchase 1,000 widgets each per month. Your state legislature passes a law that requires you to provide those widgets for free to any customer who doesn't feel like paying for their widgets. 10 of your customers tell you that they no longer want to pay for their widgets. You're still making the same amount of widgets...you're still shipping the same number of widgets...but your revenue is down by 10%. The next month, another 10 of your customers jumps on the free widget bandwagon. Eventually, you're forced to shut the place down or merge with another widget company. Negative impact? You bet! There's no such thing as a free lunch, Smurf, or a free widget. Somebody is paying. [/QUOTE]
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