Gov. David Paterson has given New York’s public workers’ union bosses everything they ever wanted by signing a law that makes union dues mandatory in perpetuity, even if a worker decides not to join a union.
“It’s a very, very significant present to the labor unions,” said Edmund J. McMahon, director of the Empire Center for New York State Policy at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative-leaning research group. “What it does is it removes one of the few remaining leverage points people still have over unions. And management, which is the taxpayer, has very, very little remaining leverage.”
It is interesting to note that New York Republicans in the Senate rolled over like scolded dogs — not one Senator was brave enough to stand up for union workers and taxpayers and the law passed unanimously.
AG employee Heather Anderson is suing the IBEW Local 33 union and the State of New Jersey for illegally restricting her and her coworkers’ First Amendment right to stop union dues deductions from their paychecks.
Fairfax County workers are seeking help from the NLRB so they can have the power to remove union bosses, but are being blocked by the "contract bar".
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