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<blockquote data-quote="JonFrum" data-source="post: 715668" data-attributes="member: 18044"><p>Dave, actually there is nothing equal about the dues structure. Paying 2.5 times your hourly rate is the <u>minimum</u> rate required by the IBT Constitution. Lots of Locals charge more. (I pay $88 per month.)</p><p> </p><p>Public sector workers who don't have the right to strike pay only 2.25 their hourly rate.</p><p> </p><p>Some Locals also use averaging formulas which result in lower-paid and higher-paid members paying the same dues amount.</p><p> </p><p>Dues is not assesed on overtime, so all that time-and-a-half money is exempt, for those who get overtime. The forty hour-a-week guy and the fifty hour-a-week guy pay the same dues amount.</p><p> </p><p>Part-timers who only get 3.5 hours a day, (and only if they demand it), pay dues at the same rate as if they worked eight or more hours a day. Part-timers earning less than $11 an hour are only required by the IBT Constitution to pay 2 times their hourly rate, but this <u>minimum</u> reduced rate is exceeded in some Locals. </p><p> </p><p>Then there is the huge disparity in Initiation Fees charged from one Local to another; and from one one workplace to another within the same local.</p><p>- - - -</p><p>By the way, there are 56,650 <u>non-members</u> of the IBT who are in bargaining units represented by the Teamsters, who get the same representation, and contract negotiating, and grievance processing as members do. <u>These</u> 56,650 non-members are not Free Riders. They pay an Agency Fee monthly to the Teamsters in lieu of dues. The amount is a bit less than the dues rate a member pays.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JonFrum, post: 715668, member: 18044"] Dave, actually there is nothing equal about the dues structure. Paying 2.5 times your hourly rate is the [U]minimum[/U] rate required by the IBT Constitution. Lots of Locals charge more. (I pay $88 per month.) Public sector workers who don't have the right to strike pay only 2.25 their hourly rate. Some Locals also use averaging formulas which result in lower-paid and higher-paid members paying the same dues amount. Dues is not assesed on overtime, so all that time-and-a-half money is exempt, for those who get overtime. The forty hour-a-week guy and the fifty hour-a-week guy pay the same dues amount. Part-timers who only get 3.5 hours a day, (and only if they demand it), pay dues at the same rate as if they worked eight or more hours a day. Part-timers earning less than $11 an hour are only required by the IBT Constitution to pay 2 times their hourly rate, but this [U]minimum[/U] reduced rate is exceeded in some Locals. Then there is the huge disparity in Initiation Fees charged from one Local to another; and from one one workplace to another within the same local. - - - - By the way, there are 56,650 [U]non-members[/U] of the IBT who are in bargaining units represented by the Teamsters, who get the same representation, and contract negotiating, and grievance processing as members do. [U]These[/U] 56,650 non-members are not Free Riders. They pay an Agency Fee monthly to the Teamsters in lieu of dues. The amount is a bit less than the dues rate a member pays. [/QUOTE]
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