Monday, October 4, 2010

Democrats Plan to Force Non-Union Members to Join Unions, Pay Dues that fund Democrat Campaigns

Americans all across the country in right-to-work states don't have to join unions if they don't want to. In non-right-to-work states if the union takes control of their workplace they can be fired for not paying union dues. Democrats are planning to make all 50 states non-right-to-work states. If this happens, then workers will not have the opportunity to stay out of a union. The union will organize, and those who don't want to join the union or whom the union dislikes will not be able to keep their jobs.



Democrats and Unions HATE Right-To-Work States, because in those states workers are free to join the union OR NOT. And that choice is one that Democrats and Unions do not believe American Workers should be allowed to make. Anti-Choice: Who would have expected that?!

Amplify’d from www.redstate.com

Currently, there are 22 states in the U.S. that have laws where workers who are employed at companies that are unionized have a choice whether or not to join or pay the union.  These states are known as Right-to-Work states.

On the other hand, in the 28 Non-Right-to-Work states (also called forced-dues states), it is legal for a union to negotiate a “union (income) security clause” that requires all workers covered by the union to pay the union dues or ‘agency fees’ as a condition of employment.  If the workers refuse to pay the union, under a “union (income) security clause,” the union can have them fired from their jobs.



As background, in 1947, Congress amended the National Labor Relations Act with the Taft-Hartley Amendments which, among other things, gave states the right to establish “Right-to-Work” laws.  Until the Taft-Hartley Amendments, from 1935 to 1947, private-sector workers in all 50 could be required to pay dues to a union or, if not, be fired from their jobs. The ability of states to have Right-to-Work laws is contained in a single paragraph within the National Labor Relations Act (Section 14 [b]), which states:

(b) [Agreements requiring union membership in violation of State law] Nothing in this Act [subchapter] shall be construed as authorizing the execution or application of agreements requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment in any State or Territory in which such execution or application is prohibited by State or Territorial law.

As a result of this one section being inserted into the 1947 amendments, states (through their legislatures) could determine whether or not to be a Right-to-Work state, or a forced-dues state.  Therefore, the removal of this one section would make all 50 states forced-dues states, giving unions the ability to have workers fired for not paying union dues or fees.

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