Wisconsin Public Unions Sell Out the Rank-and-File

Kevin “Coach” Collins, FloydReports.com

While statewide union thugs were busy trashing Wisconsin’s capitol building and making death threats against Republicans supposedly in an effort to “protect” their members, local union bosses were busy stabbing those same members in the back.

If nothing else, the entire Wisconsin episode in union strong arm tactics has forever rip the cover off the façade of the unions’ purported paternalism toward their members. Rank and file union members are learning their union thug bosses care about themselves and nothing else.

Selling Them Out

At the very moment the unions were savagely attacking anyone they thought was against their designs to keep feeding at the Wisconsin public trough, the bosses of three AFSCME locals, an SEIU local, and a Wisconsin Professional Police Association (clerical workers) unions….

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(The Other) Beck Has the Answer to Union Thuggery

Kevin, “Coach” Collins, CoachIsRight.com

The current crisis in Wisconsin brings to mind the results of a 1988 Supreme Court decision in the matter of Communication Workers of America v. Beck. “Beck” started when a CWA worker named Harry Beck demanded his dues money back because the CWA was using it to fund the campaigns of liberal Democrats and as a conservative Beck had had enough.

After the usual protracted period of appeals the case worked its way up to the Supreme Court and was decided in favor of Beck and his co-defendants.

What “Beck” Said and Why It’s Important Today

The decision established what are now known as “Beck rights” for all American workers.  Essentially it said a union worker who objects to having his/her dues used for purposes he/she disapproves of can no longer be forced to pay that part of any  dues not specifically designated for actual union related purposes.  Only the dues fees actually necessary to provide bargaining services and administer benefits can be collected by unions.  In short, unions can no longer collect union dues for anti American causes without the expressed permission of the member.

Unfortunately, almost as soon as the decision was handed down the media, Democrats and feckless collaborating Republicans conspired to make believe it never happened….

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