Based on the union’s 2014 annual report to the U.S. Department of Labor, CWA had 623,020 members and 43,353 “agency fee payers” as of May 31. CWA takes mandatory fees from workers in private industry and in taxpayer-funded government jobs.
Many workers who decline union membership can be forced to pay agency fees of slightly less than CWA’s typical 1.3 percent dues rate. Unions can make agency fees a condition of employment for private-sector workers in 26 states and public-sector workers in 23 states.
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Happens at ECI must pay a fee even if you don't want to belong to the union. Unfair because most unions support democrats campaign funding with union money and the employees have no say.
ReplyDeleteThe majority of telecom workers want a Union...Especially at Comcast who abuse their workers daily.
ReplyDeleteIt's getting ready to happen to the teachers in Wicomico county. The teachers want the union out but are being strong armed into paying dues whether they believe in the union or not.
ReplyDeleteIf you benefit from the collective bargaining of a union, which teachers in Wicomico County do, you should pay a fee for those collectively bargained benefits and salaries. Go in by yourself to the BOE and see how you fare. Opponents of agency fees are a bunch of free-loaders wanting something for nothing!
ReplyDeleteO'Malley gifted airport workers at BWI this privilege a few years ago. Those workers can refuse the union fee by claiming religeos objection and show that they are sending to a charity instead.
ReplyDelete453-You sound like a union representative. How about those tens of thousands of teachers in Wisconsin who've decided to "go it alone" when given the option by Gov. Walker and the Republican majority?
ReplyDeleteThievery under the veil of a union due.