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| Florida bans automatic deduction for union dues |
| 2011-03-27 |
| Hat tip Instapundit The Florida House delivered a major blow to public employee unions Friday, approving a bill that would ban automatic dues deduction from a government paycheck and require members to sign off on the use of their dues for political purposes. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #16 Remember - when Obama had that big meeting on Obamacare.... the Unions - specifically the United Auto Workers - were fully represented and could (and did) name their terms. The american voters were expressly excluded from the secret meetings. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-03-27 22:56 |
| #15 Yes, no one is backing the Traditional American Citizen anymore anywhere in government other than the Military and Intel. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-03-27 22:50 |
| #14 ...awe come on, it wasn't the 'state', as the institution on paper, but the 'state' as in one political party. They're joined at the hips. Unions have legally bought and paid for direct representation on the legislative floor and the executives [and is now working to operate the Judiciary as well if Wisconsin is a example of their next grab for power]. They don't need no stinking bargaining outside what they get their agents on that floor to do for them. The people who pay the taxes that fund the government have no one working for their interests except for the occasional node from the other party when its not engaging in 'bi-partisan' sell outs or, as corporations, have bought their own as well. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-03-27 22:20 |
| #13 What should be striking is they had the power to make the states collect their dues for them in the first place. |
| Posted by: newc 2011-03-27 21:50 |
| #12 nota bene: I'm in one of those awful evil unions (required by my status as pillager of taxpayers and lay-about whore engineer). I pay only the minimum dues, and refuse to support their political activities as I have ethics and generally don't agree with their politics |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-03-27 19:06 |
| #11 That being said, anyone else notice a flurry of Firefighter Union ads recently, besides us in OK and KS? Seattle State TV is also fat with a rather full menu of all public employee 'its for the children' ads. |
| Posted by: USN,Ret 2011-03-27 18:54 |
| #10 Unions are covered under right to assemble. Fine. That also means the right to choose not to assemble. No required memberships, especially fee related, in any way shape or form period. Quite true Frank, guy on local morning news last week said as much, though admittedly Kansas Unions are farm team at best. That being said, anyone else notice a flurry of Firefighter Union ads recently, besides us in OK and KS? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-03-27 18:30 |
| #9 and their Democrat friends are cringing in fear of the Unions not having that easy campaign cash to offer up. It will take quite a while for the "undocumented voters" to make up that diff...say... a 100 years? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-03-27 15:18 |
| #8 Why do you think the unions are so up-in-arms about the loss of automatic (and generally unseen) payroll deduction of dues? It has nothing to do with the workers - or more precisely an awfull lot about the workers realizing how much the unions are taking verses what services they are providing (and how much the workers are forced to pay to a specific political party). (Should do the same with State and Federal taxes too IMHO) |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2011-03-27 14:37 |
| #7 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Best laugh I've had all day, #5 Frank. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2011-03-27 14:28 |
| #6 I regret to say Maryland is still back in the old days and old ways. House approved a family planning measure that increases by $6.5 million. They figure they will save $40 million by removing 4000 "unintended pregnancies". They also passed a bill extending collective bargaining to independent home health care providers who "engage in collective bargaining with state agencies". |
| Posted by: Dale 2011-03-27 14:28 |
| #5 A union shouldn't get automatic paycheck deductions. If they truly serve the economic and political interests of a union member, they should have no problem securing their dues voluntarily, right? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2011-03-27 14:04 |
| #4 Ladies, We are witnessing the return of "Im mad as hell and Im not going to take it anymore" into the public thinking. Condoleeza Rice for President! |
| Posted by: Fi 2011-03-27 13:05 |
| #3 Gentlemen, I think we are witnessing the return of State Governments to the hands of the citizens. The general stink that has been created by the public employee pensions in California and the general corruption of the state by the public employee unions, has gained the attention of a number of states in the throes of impending economic collapse. When you realize how the employee unions have corrupted every public service provided by government for the benefit of a few, it is reminesent of the halycon days of the Communist party and the apparatik in the old USSR. When this is over, we might see a return to politicians as public servants instead of vice versa. We can only hope the trend continues. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2011-03-27 12:56 |
| #2 Why should the taxpayers pick up tab for the State collecting the dues for the union? That makes the State the bag man for the unions. A bad practice. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-03-27 10:30 |
| #1 Florida bans Democratic Party Tax on workers FIFY. Abolition. Thank god almighty I'm free at last! |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-03-27 09:27 |