washamericom
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link ... ? heh, just kidding... NYc.i'd like to hear stories from people, past and present, if and how they were "persuaded" to vote.Janus.....a union worker who doesn't agree with the Leftist policies and candidates that his union uses the dues it collects, sues to block forcing him to pay dues!
This sort of thing is what he objects to:
" Andy Stern of the SEIU:
We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama — $60.7 million to be exact — and we’re proud of it." LaborPains.org | The Price of An Election
Union support is the life's blood of the Democrat Party.
Where did the union get that money, and who decided how it is to be spent?
1. "On June 6, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation asked the Supreme Court to hear Janus v. AFSCME, a case involving plaintiff Mark Janus...is compelled to send part of his paycheck to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, even though he says that the union does not “represent his interests.”
2. Right-to-work proponents are optimistic that the Court will hear the case and that Neil Gorsuch, Scalia’s replacement, will come down as the fifth vote on the side of employee freedom and overturn the 40-year-old precedent established in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, in which the Supreme Court held that states may force public-sector workers to pay union dues, ....
3. The Economic Policy Institute, an organization with strong ties to organized labor, claims that prohibiting fair-share payments could “profoundly affect the ability of millions of public-sector workers to improve their wages and working conditions....
4. [But former] research fellow in labor economics at the Heritage Foundation James Sherk explains that “studies that control for differences in costs of living find workers in states with voluntary dues have no lower—and possibly slightly higher—real wages than workers in states with compulsory dues.”
Here come the predictions of the end of the Democrat Party:
5. Even if the Court decides to hear the case, a decision in Janus is most likely a year off. But the unions are planning for the worst-case scenario. California Teachers Association Executive Director Joe Nuñez wrote in January that the CTA should be prepared for a 30 percent to 40 percent membership drop, ....
6. But whatever the membership drop might be, it will be damaging to the unions and could have widespread ramifications. And perhaps no group will be more affected than the Democratic Party. Naomi Walker, an assistant to AFSCME president Lee Saunders and a former Obama administration appointee, said that Janus “could undermine political operations that assist the Democratic Party.”
She added, “The progressive infrastructure in this country, from think tanks to advocacy organizations—which depends on the resources and engagement of workers and their unions—will crumble. We need the entire labor and progressive movements to stand with us and fight for us.
We may not survive without it—and nor, we fear, will they.”
['tis a consummation devoutly to be wished'....The Bard]
7. "The loss of these unions’ political clout certainly was a factor in giving Donald Trump narrow victories in both states. Should the Court decide for Janus in Janus, neither the apocalypse nor utopia will be upon us, but much will change.
8. Most notably, many government workers will have much freedom than they have now, and the Democratic Party won’t have the same bundles of cash flowing from union piggy banks." Janus and Worker Freedom
In full disclosure....the future of the Supreme Court, and of this nation, was my #1 reason for voting for President Trump.
The Democrats see exactly why.
and who employs the two million seiu members.
good one PC.
I've been an SEIU member since 2004. I have never felt compelled to vote for any candidate supported by the SEIU.
I was in a public sector union for awhile and the first thing they do, by law, when you're hired, is offer you a paper to sign that will exempt you from paying the portion of your union dues that go to political activities,
and if you want that, they will lower your dues accordingly.