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AllyCat

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5. The goal with so-called Right to Work legislation is kill unions
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 09:38 AM
Feb 2015

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.

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