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Re: Wisconsin Republicans vote to strip public worker collective bargaining rights wi
not sure i follow you on the last part, but yes, voluntary contributions do net a fair amount of cash....whether you believe that or not, i can't help, except to ask you a few questions...have you belonged to a union? i believe the answer to be NO, so , your knowledge on how the unions raise money for political activities is extremely limited, to say the least....quite a few folks have money taken out of their checks in my union, for v-cap, those amounts range from a couple of dollars a week to sometimes 50-100 dollars a month, and this is above and beyond the dues they pay. i'm sure this is the same in all other unions when it comes to funding political activities. as for the first part, the employee has the CHOICE right at the beginning of employment, to either work in the shop, and join the union, or to say no thankyou, if they honestly have that big of a problem working in a union shop. and yes, a shop owner would be violating federal law by telling workers that no they can't join a union if they work for him...that is not his choice, it is the CHOICE OF THOSE WORKING IN THE SHOP TO FORM A UNION OR NOT, i believe you know and understand this.it's a violation of federal law; but why is it any more a violation of the workers' rights than making membership in a union a condition of employment. if a workplace says "if you work here, you can't organize into a union" then that is no more or less coercive than them saying, "if you work here, you must organize into a union."
the utter implausibility of your claims that janitors and bus drivers are coming in with more than $100 million in small amounts of cash and giving it to their unions cause they just like them.