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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 810075" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p>Here's a nice new twist to this thread................</p><p><strong><a href="http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/02/19/whats-at-stake-in-wisconsin-budget-battle/" target="_blank">What’s at Stake in Wisconsin Budget Battle: Union Dues, of Course</a></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>Labor historian Fred Siegel offers further reasons why unions are manning the barricades. Mr. Walker would require that public-employee unions be recertified annually by a majority vote of all their members, not merely by a majority of those that choose to cast ballots. In addition, he would end the government’s practice of automatically deducting union dues from employee paychecks. For Wisconsin teachers, union dues total between $700 and $1,000 a year.</p><p> “Ending dues deductions breaks the political cycle in which government collects dues, gives them to the unions, who then use the dues to back their favorite candidates and also lobby for bigger government and more pay and benefits,” Mr. Siegel told me. After New York City’s Transport Workers Union lost the right to automatic dues collection in 2007 following an illegal strike, its income fell by more than 35% as many members stopped ponying up. New York City ended the dues collection ban after 18 months.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 810075, member: 12952"] Here's a nice new twist to this thread................ [B][URL="http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/02/19/whats-at-stake-in-wisconsin-budget-battle/"]What’s at Stake in Wisconsin Budget Battle: Union Dues, of Course[/URL][/B] Labor historian Fred Siegel offers further reasons why unions are manning the barricades. Mr. Walker would require that public-employee unions be recertified annually by a majority vote of all their members, not merely by a majority of those that choose to cast ballots. In addition, he would end the government’s practice of automatically deducting union dues from employee paychecks. For Wisconsin teachers, union dues total between $700 and $1,000 a year. “Ending dues deductions breaks the political cycle in which government collects dues, gives them to the unions, who then use the dues to back their favorite candidates and also lobby for bigger government and more pay and benefits,” Mr. Siegel told me. After New York City’s Transport Workers Union lost the right to automatic dues collection in 2007 following an illegal strike, its income fell by more than 35% as many members stopped ponying up. New York City ended the dues collection ban after 18 months. [/QUOTE]
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