Screenwriter, novelist, blogger and commentator for National Public Radio, John Ridley, laid it on the line, last week, when he took “financial core,” status, as a means to remove himself from the Writers Guild of America. As he so eloquently put it:
. . . [W]hen membership is compulsory, free expression must be accommodated. The obligation of the union is to protect, not crush, the minority view.
Just say no to government union bargaining in Virginia In our Republic, all citizens have a right to petition their elected officials for redress of grievances, but no one should have special access to decisions over spending public funds, which monopoly bargaining grants union officials.
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