Quit the union and use that cash for Christmas shopping!

[TexasTowelie]

From a letter sent to state workers by Mailee Smith, who is the Illinois Policy Institute’s policy staff attorney.


(full contents of the PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1utBDvF5koN4_4srmzN4MnfMaD5YlKUHX/view )


The ol’ self-interest angle.

* From AFSCME…

The mailer (pictured) tries to trick AFSCME members into quitting their union as a way to put “money into your pocket this Christmas”. Of course, what the IPI and Rauner really want is to dupe workers into leaving the union as a way to drain AFSCME’s resources and prevent us from standing together against Rauner and the IPI’s destructive anti-worker agenda.

This is just the latest in a series of ploys by IPI and their ilk who brought the anti-union Janus case, sent other phony mailers and even stole the identity of AFSCME local union presidents, activists and retirees in a desperate bid for legitimacy.

The tricks aren’t working on union members here or elsewhere. In Illinois and across the country, AFSCME members are seeing through the IPI lies — and union ranks are actually growing in the wake of the Janus case as former fee-payers sign up and become dues-paying members.

https://capitolfax.com/2018/12/19/quit-the-union-and-use-that-cash-for-christmas-shopping/

[Turbineguy]

1. This is precisely why there are Unions.

If companies want to get rid of Unions they need to support regulations that would displace Unions in the same way that some European countries did. My German colleagues did not belong to a union, because the union did nothing, dues were a waste. Over time, the union protections became government employment law and company policy. Hence: no need for a Union.

I worked for a German company where firing an employee had exactly the same rules as my Union did as far as justification and fairness went.

This is a scam. The biggest problem unionized companies have is being able to control who gets hired.

As the manager of a shipyard once told me, "bad management makes for bad unions!"