…were concerned about protecting their members against management stepping on them:
“We’ve never really had this broad and direct an attack before,” said CWA Area Director Hetty Rosenstein. “We have in 30 years never raised our dues. We never had as great a need.”
I can see the reasoning, after all tighter time, management might be leaning heavy, perhaps firing people without cause. I’m sure the unions will be using those funds for that kind of thing won’t they?
the Communications Workers of America is asking its 40,000 state employee members to accept higher dues to pay for advertising campaigns that would push back against Gov. Chris Christie and other critics. emphasis mine
You know the union members had better get it through their head that their dues have basically become political slush funds that the leaders. And the people know it. If they didn’t then you wouldn’t have unions pushing laws to get rid of the secret ballot to get shops to unionize.
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