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Old May 5th 11, 06:38 PM posted to rec.photo.equipment.35mm,rec.photo.digital,rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
Neil Harrington[_6_]
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"Pete Stavrakoglou" wrote in message
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"tony cooper" wrote in message
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On Mon, 2 May 2011 21:40:20 -0700, "Bill Graham"
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Perhaps, but its a bill that insures that people know they are paying
dues
to a union, whether they want to or not. In California, they say, "Union
membership is not required in this state.", but they deduct the union
dues
from your paycheck, so even though you don't have to be a member, you
have
to pay the union their dues anyway. If that isn't "doublespeak" then I
don't
know what is.


There is no way that there can be a deduction from a check for union
dues if the person receiving the check has not joined the union. At
some point, anyone with anything deducted from their check has
authorized that deduction.


Not quite, but this is an usual case: my wife is a school teacher. She
is a member of her local union whose sole responsibility is to conduct
union business (no politicizing, no donations to candidates, etc.). The
teachers are also members of NYSUT, the NY State Teacher's Union. Whena
deduction is made from their paychecks, a portion of that goes to NYSUT.
To our knowledge, my wife is the only public school teacher in New York
who is not a member of NYSUT. She was finally able to withdraw her
membership in NYSUT after a long fight. She was stonewalled for over a
year by her local union and then by NYSUT. It took the work of an
attorney from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation to make
it happen. My wife's objection to staying a member is that her dues are
going to NYSUT to support issues and candidates that she doesn't. She is
not given a choice nor are the members asked who they would like the union
to support. She is now officially no longer a member of NYSUT. Still,
the deduction is made from her paycheck for the NYSUT dues as it always
was but it now goes towards a charity that she chooses but must be
approved by NYSUT and her local union. Why should she be forced to still
have that deduction made? She has chosen "Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep" as
the charity and the union takes the credit for making the donation. It's
not as if my wife is looking for recognition from the chairty, but it was
difficult to confirm that they were actually sending the donation since
the charity never had and record of getting it in my wife's name.


That is a really rotten arrangement. The scheme is such that your wife is
being PUNISHED, plain and simple, because she chooses not to be a member of
the state union. And as you say, her forced donation to the charity cannot
even be confirmed. Why should the union even be involved in such a transfer
in the first place?

Really, really rotten. Your wife's case should be made a textbook example of
how these unions operate.


 




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