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Swordsmyth
01-28-2019, 07:55 PM
Government labor unions (https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/economy/labor-unions) are losing dues-paying members at an unprecedented rate, which is good news for workers and bad news for liberal coffers. The mass exodus is forcing leaders on the left to address a serious problem: Their decades of financial backing from fat cat union bosses may be coming to an end.
Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark right-to-work ruling last June (Janus v. AFSCME (https://video.foxnews.com/v/5802891788001/#sp=show-clips)) and the Freedom Foundation’s efforts to inform public employees of the court’s decision, more than 40,000 union members on the West Coast have defected during the past six months (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-deals-blow-to-unions-rules-against-forced-fees-for-government-workers) alone. Now that government workers have a choice to leave their unions, they are fleeing in droves.
The sharp decline in membership probably explains why union leaders have hatched a scheme in Oregon that they hope will become a playbook for the rest of the nation.


Oregon House Bill 2643, authored by Rep. Paul Holvey, D-Eugene, and scheduled to be introduced during the current legislative session, is a shot across the bow of Janus, which banned the so-called “agency” fees that government employees who successfully opted-out of full union participation were still required to pay in lieu of dues.
The measure would replace Oregon’s existing agency fee laws by creating a slush fund from which state and local government would pay the equivalent of each employee’s monthly dues directly to the union.
While Janus stops governments from requiring employees to make payments to unions out of their own pockets, HB-2643 proponents insist it doesn’t prevent state and local governments from supporting unions instead.

More at: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/loads-of-american-workers-are-dropping-out-of-unions-now-liberals-have-a-new-plan-to-save-lefts-cash-cow

oyarde
01-28-2019, 08:00 PM
Oregon slush fund , figures .