Union leaders furious over door-to-door tactic targeting their members

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Q13Fox

BY HANA KIM,

AUBURN, Wash. -- It’s a movement targeting unions across Washington.

The conservative think tank Freedom Foundation is sweeping one county at a time armed with names and addresses of union members.

On Wednesday, about two dozen people with the group canvassed King County.

The Freedom Foundation says a 2014 U.S. Supreme Court decision now gives part-time home health care workers the right to opt out of being in their union, SEIU 775. They say prior to 2014, workers had no choice but to pay.

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[Ohioblue22]

1. Why is this making them furious?

[Kingofalldems]

2. Say what?

[Ilsa]

4. Big businesses are spending money to convince

Union members not to pay dues, telling them they have the right to opt out, but that they'll still have union protections. If the majority is going to opt out, how long before the union can't afford to assist and protect members who've been wronged?

[Ohioblue22]

6. Yea i never got how the Gov was able to tell a business

They have to provide services for free. I'm surprised that unions don't sue over that.
Perhaps the unions should do outreach and education about the need for unions and what opting out would do. and let other members know how isn't paying

[fleabiscuit]

11. Unions are tax-exempt nonprofit organizations. nt

[Omaha Steve]

12. What is your point?

IF a non-profit can't pay salaries, rent, utilities, etc... they go out of business.

3.2% of pay (tax deductable) for these SEIU members is reasonable for all the benefits the union provides with a written contract!

Unions are democracy in the workplace!

OS

[Ohioblue22]

14. It's also a business which out government said has to provide services for free

[fleabiscuit]

16. It's taking.

[fleabiscuit]

15. That was my question. nt

[Festivito]

17. Cons made unions give everyone service EVEN IF THEY DO NOT PAY.

So, now they can go around passing propaganda making unions look bad while telling people what they can do about the bad things they made you think they do.

[LiberalFighter]

3. And who gave them the names and addresses of the union members?

The employer should be called out.

[groundloop]

5. Fucking union busting bastards. If white collar employees could unionize I'd be a PROUD member.

I've seen so many unsafe and unfair working conditions in my time that, even as a white collar worker, I fully support unions and the good they do. Far too many employers only see their people as a necessary evil as opposed to the valuable partners they are.

These fucking scumbags need to be dragged into court.

[Snotcicles]

7. Hat tip to ya.

[WinstonSmith4740]

8. Y'know why?

I honestly think part of that (probably a big part) is that payroll is on the "liability" column in a P & L sheet. My late husband started out as a salesman, worked his way up to management. One of the biggest "discussions" in meetings was him against the accountants who kept insisting the sales team was "making too much money". His theory was that they (accountants) had college degrees, and a vast majority of his sales people didn't. It just made them crazy that people without degrees made more money than them. Same with this...as long as employees are seen as liabilities instead of assets, they will always be undervalued as employees. These are the people that do the damn work! Number crunchers always seem to lose track of that fact.

[Mc Mike]

9. Our local SEIU is very active with 'Labor to Labor' outreach during elections.

So of course, the deep pocket anti-Dem, anti-Union repugs and businesses are doing a threatening variation of 'Labor to Labor'.

They're telling pro-union SEIU members 'we don't like unions, and we know you're in one, and know where you live.' They're telling members who just pay dues but aren't politically involved 'Take your money out of the union, it's legal', so the union can be wiped out. They're making rank and file people less likely to want to answer that knock on the door, when labor canvassers want to pass out election year information.

[turbinetree]

10. Time for some down to earth UNION meetings, about this BS

Time to ask for these national to right to work for less scabs there names and who and where they got there funding and then to file charges on harassment, and get a cease and dissent order from the courts


And if that doesn't work then go to the same scabs home doing this harassment and ask them to join a union


Stay Strong SEIU 775 they are trying to divide and conquer, the same gambit from the national right to work for less

http://www.thestand.org/2016/04/the-racist-past-present-of-right-to-work/

http://www.progressive.org/news/2015/03/188025/right-work-laws-built-racist-foundations

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/what-are-right-to-work-laws




Honk-------------------for a political revolution

[mdbl]

13. thanks for the heads up Steve!