Dues you want to pay to a union in Wisconsin? Cheeseheads can say no, thanks to Scott Walker
according to this piece in the WaPo;
Here in King [Wisconsin], [Terry] Magnant and her fellow AFSCME members, workers at a local
veterans home, have been knocking on doors on weekends to persuade
former members to rejoin. Community college professors in Moraine Park,
home to a technical college, are reducing dues from $59 to $36 each
month. And those in Milwaukee are planing a campaign using videos and
posters to highlight union principles. The theme: “Remember.”
Which, according to
Ironman at Political Calculations, they probably do remember...being gouged by their union;
The states whose education unions are most gouging their teachers
members include Hawaii (with surplus member dues of 66% and 34% for the
state's two NEA affiliates), California (54%), New Jersey (52.1%), Ohio
(50.7%), Florida (42.0%), Nevada (41.6%), Massachusetts (37.6%) and
Wisconsin (35.6%). At a minimum, teachers' union dues could be reduced
by anywhere from 10% to 25% in these states without impacting the union
affiliates ability to just represent the teachers at their employers.
Understandable then, the attitudes found by the WaPo reporter, including;
“I don’t see the point of being in a union anymore,” said Dan Anliker, a
34-year-old technology teacher and father of two in Reedsburg, a tiny
city about 60 miles northwest of Madison.
.... “Everyone’s on their own island now,” he said. “If you do a good job,
everything will take care of itself. The money I’d spend on dues is way
more valuable to buy groceries for my family.”
Choice. Very choice.
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