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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
Union dues are not taxes. They are taken out of their paychecks, they are involuntary. Saying that they can teach somewhere else is laughable. Techers teach where they can get a job. And since the vast majority of jobs are public school aka union jobs that is where they work. Unions dont want teachers or any other members the right to opt out or not be in the union.
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Teacher works.
Teacher earns money.
Teacher gets paycheck.
That money belongs to the teacher.
Union dues come out of that paycheck.
Taxpayers thinking they have a right to say what union dues money is spent upon is ... beyond absurd. They have zero claim to that. Just like they have zero claim on the employee choosing to send $1 of their tax money to a wildlife fund.
Teachers are free agents. They have every right not to take a job where they have to join a teachers union. Private schools pay about 5% more in pay and benefits than Wisconsin public schools.
Trying to make the argument that union-busting is for the benefit of the employees is touching, but completely unbelievable
Although it is nice to see, now that the union has agreed to all Walkers demands regarding pension contribution, pay cut, etc., yet Walker is going forward with his main concern, being busting the unions (as verified by his unbelievable silliness in sharing his plan for threatening workers with the imaginary "David Koch") - that it's crystal clear the whole point of this has less to do with budget deficits (like maybe caused by Walker giving $140 million in unfunded tax credits to business, oh wow, that's a huge deficit hole that could be filled by ... teacher pensions and pay cuts! But the damn unions are standing in the way ... hummmmm) and everything to do with typical Republican demagogary.