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You didn\'t really think they care, did you?

By: NightTwister (Diary)  |  August 20th, 2010 at 08:42 AM  | 

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H/T Mount Virtus

Non-union employees of some public school districts in Colorado are required to opt out of paying dues each year during a very short window of time. What happens when something urgent causes a worker to miss submitting their paperwork on time?

That’s right, they pay their dues. They don’t care about your husband’s Parkinsons disease, or your son’s medical disabilities. They only care about your money. You should be thanking them that they let you opt out in the first place.

Independent Teachers of Colorado helps teachers and other public school employees know their options. What these unions are doing is perfectly legal. That needs to change, and it will only change if we elect Republicans to the state Senate and House.

Night Twister

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  • http://slcliberty.blogivists.com randy streu

    I have to OPT IN to even let them use MY OWN MONEY from my savings account to cover overdrafts from my checking account.

    But if a union’s involved, they get to garnish my wages UNLESS I OPT OUT?

    Huh. Who’s pulling the strings here? I think that question is answered.

  • E Pluribus Unum

    Yes absolutely, nothing much changes if first we don;t change this state back to red.

  • IJB

    Just sayin’.

  • Achance

    They can’t constitutionally compel dues for their “social, fraternal, and political” activities and only do so on the sufferance of public managers. The arcane window periods for objection are a creature of contract; management doesn’t have to agree to that stuff and the union can’t force them to. Much of it is permissive or even illegal bargaining subjects, so the union can’t persist to impasse about it; they wouldn’t anyway because they could NEVER get a strike vote over it.

    When you have stuff like this in labor agreements, it is because you have chickensh#t management and feckless political leadership. Can’t much blame the union for either buying them or taking advantage of them.

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    The political support from the Democrat Majority House & Senate for public worker unions is strong. Same from Gov. Ritter. We’re hoping to take back at least one chamber in November, but after the Republican Primary fiasco and that idiot Tancredo stabbing us in the back, we’ll likely end up with Hickenlooper. I read recently that several GOP money men are supporting Hick…

    You get the government you deserve.

  • deano64

    we can take back both chambers? I hope we get at least one since it will be so important if Hickenlooper gets in as it looks like he will now.

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister

    The House can be won. We can win the Senate if everything goes our way. What we don’t yet know is how far down the effects of the Gov. race (and to a lesser extent the U.S. Senate race) will go to affect other races.

  • acat

    The House to put the Dem agenda on ice.
    The Governors to keep the Dem game of gerrymandering based on the 2010 census to a minimum.

    Mew

  • http://www.nighttwister.com NightTwister
  • acat