Conservative
Type 40
link please?Ok go ahead link for us the proof the Union had a vote on what to do and how to spend the Union dues.
There's a FEDERAL LAW that allows union members to opt out of paying the part of their dues that are used for political purposes, dumbass.
As for expenditures they are voted on in every union meeting.
And in case you want to take issue with union members donating their personal funds it's none of your damned business what they do with their personal money.
here... let me save you the trouble. It is precedent set in the 1998 Supreme Court case of Beck v. Communication Workers of America.
Giving Union Members a Choice: How to Get Union Dues Refunds
In 1988, after battling through twelve years of red tape and legal appeals, a telephone lineman named Harry Beck took his case to the Supreme Court. His request was simple: that the court reaffirm his right to keep his hard earned wages, rather than have them confiscated by union officials and spent to promote a political agenda with which he did not agree. Consequently, the Supreme Court ruled in Beck v. Communication Workers of America that unions could not force workers to pay dues to support political causes and matters unrelated to the normal union duties of collective bargaining and union representation. The court ruled that political contributions must be voluntary. In Mr. Beck's case, the union spent 79 percent of his money for purposes other than ‘normal union duties.' Steve Havas, another union member, sued and got $8,877.48 back in dues that he had paid for years.
Unfortunately, this decision was ignored by the Democratically controlled Congresses of the ‘80s. Advancing the agenda of organized labor, President Clinton decided that workers should not be informed of this right. On February 1, 1995, President Clinton rescinded an Executive Order from President Bush requiring all federal contractors to post notices in the workplace informing workers of their rights under the Beck decision. The problem is that the law requires no one to tell the workers that their contributions to political causes are supposed to be voluntary. Thus, union leaders can continue to dock money from workers' paychecks for their own political use. Only when a union member objects does the union stop collecting , and even then it is only from that single member.
the law doesn't allow them to opt out. It allows them to recoup dues used for those political purposes they disagree with...IF THEY ASK.
They are not informed of this right.
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