The National Institute for Labor Relations Research showed that union officials extract forced union dues from over 8 million private sector employees annually, and that the true cost of Big Labor’s nationwide campaign of mailings, phone banks and voter turnout drives adds up to at least $400 million each election cycle.
Big Labor’s coercion of employees into paying union dues to subsidize its political agenda isn’t new, since this practice is as old as the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
As John Cunniff of the Associated Press reported just before Labor Day last year, workers “in 29 states and the District of Columbia, where right-to-work laws don’t exist, can be fired for refusing to pay union dues, even if those dues are used for purposes abhorrent to their religious, moral or political beliefs.”
“To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical.” — Thomas Jefferson, 1779
December 7th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Find a brave and rich lawer. I bet you could sue them and bring the case to the press.
December 7th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Since Thomas Jefferson said that, why am I paying taxes to fund this illegal occupation??