From the article I just posted:
"When public employees are not required to pay union dues, most choose not to, noted columnist George F. Will. He wrote about how membership in the Colorado Association of Public Employees declined 70 percent after Colorado, in 2001, required annual votes reauthorizing collection of dues. Indiana stopped collecting dues from unionized public employees in 2005. There's been a 90 percent drop in dues paying members since then. When Washington state in 1992 ended automatic dues deductions for political activities, the percentage of teachers making such contributions fell from 82 to 11."
Why is it that when employees are not forced to join a union and pay dues they overwhelmingly run kicking and screaming away from membership in the union as fast as they can, eh? If the huge majority of employees don't want to belong to the union, then why should they be tyrannically forced to do so by the very people who will profit from their coerced membership? And don't trot out the usual, silly lie that the union provides all of the workers better pay and benefits because the workers in the trenches must not believe the union provides much, if anything, of value that they cannot get on their own if 70%, 75%, 80%, 85%, or 90% of them enthusiastically jump at the chance not to join and pay dues and allow the union to be decertified whenever they have that chance!
Cheers!
B.
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