Originally Posted By: NM LeonNo, I'm against the unions who represent 36% of PUBLIC employees (and who I didn't vote for) having power over the government I DID vote for, and to add insult to injury, using my money to gain that power.
Looks like like the 36% union members are smarter than the non union, unless they are forced to pay dues, they are sucking the hind teat of benefits for free. So the 64% that are non members are still raking in the benefits, Oh what a great country! .
Quote:Even if the unions are (now) playing it straight and all of their PAC money is "voluntarily" given, that's only the money that's given directly to candidates. The unions can and do use general dues to pay for "issue advertising", almost all of which is of the "Republicans are evil, vote Democrat" variety.
If it is legal, what is the beef? You can do the same, you can advertise any amount you want. A lot of other organizations do, why not you?
Quote:Why should I have to pay for that advertising with my tax dollars, and more to the point, why should a teacher or other public employee be forced to pay union dues whether he wants to or not?
Not your tax dollars, it is the people's dues that pays for the advertising. You can can claim it as tax dollars, but that is BS, it is their money to with as they see fit. Just because some one is a government employee doesn't mean every thing they spend is your tax dollar , they worked for it. Kind of looks like they use their dollar pretty efficiently you might try it. As to the being forced to pay dues, they knew what they were getting into, sounds like their lightbulb may not be a bright as they think it is. If so many disagree with paying the dues, they can always call for a referendum to rescind the union and not pay the dues. Guess what, they know which side of the union they want to stay on, the side that covers their rear, gets them their raises, looks like they really like what the union does for them, sounds kind of 2 faced.
Quote:In addition, since with union rules it usually doesn't matter how good a teacher you are, the newest will be the ones laid off, it might give you pause before you tried to get hired. This is a valid point, the least productive employees should be laid off first, too bad there is no real valid method to actually consider productivity of teachers. Teachers deal with individuals, each is unique, no test can decide how good a teacher is, a test only shows how good the student is. You needn't answer this reply about the teachers I have read quite a bit of your other verbal vomit about the teaching profession and already know the line you will try to go.