Wisconsin GOP circumventing process to ram through Right to Freeload

[AllyCat]

I am so disappointed in my state. My union currently at the bargaining table.

[randys1]

1. RIght to freeload? Please explain

[NutmegYankee]

2. Probably has to do with getting Union bennies, but not be a member.

[randys1]

3. Great way to kill unions. I am often attacked here for being outraged over one

thing or another.

I am outraged that unions are under attack in America

[AllyCat]

5. The goal with so-called Right to Work legislation is kill unions

They do this by allowing employers to not collect union dues from members paychecks. Those who don't want to pay or use the money for something else, just don't pay anymore...but get the benefits of a contract that others work to negotiate. As employees realize they don't have to pay dues in order to get a contract, more and more of them just stop paying dues. Unions can no longer afford to represent their members, making it look like "what did that union ever do for me?" In a short period of time, the employees fail to vote to recertify and the union is gone.

Workers earn less, get fewer benefits, have lower job security, and worker and customer safety or in OUR case PATIENT SAFETY suffers.

But hey, it's all about the jobs. Not.

[upaloopa]

4. I'd like them to stop saying WI is a blue state

Saying Walker won 3 times in a blue state is an insult to to real blue states.