red states rule
06-17-2010, 05:33 AM
While unions are whining how they need a taxpayer bailout to fund their pension funds, they are taking MORE money from their members to fund their political activities
With the Obama economy tanking, why do unions and government workers have a problem with cutting back like the rest of us have had to do? (as well as private companies have done)
Leaders of the state’s largest state workers union say unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures.
Facing a hostile governor, a bad economy, and the very real prospect of layoffs next year, the Communications Workers of America is asking its 40,000 state employee members to accept higher dues to pay for advertising campaigns that would push back against Gov. Chris Christie and other critics.
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Share “We’ve never really had this broad and direct an attack before,” said CWA Area Director Hetty Rosenstein. “We have in 30 years never raised our dues. We never had as great a need.”
Under the proposal, members would raise their dues one-tenth of one percent (to 1.25 percent of their salary) for a fund that would collect about $2 million a year for ads touting the importance of state workers.
The fund would be similar to one the New Jersey Education Association teachers union set up in the 1990s to tout public school teachers’ accomplishments. The union says its PRIDE in Public Education campaign highlighting public schools’ successes includes $5 million in advertising for the year.
“Our interests are ... to be able to educate elected officials and members of the public on what we really do, and to have the power to do that ourselves as opposed to relying on someone else’s definition or characterization of us,” Rosenstein said.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/06/labor_union_to_vote_on_forming.html#incart_rh
With the Obama economy tanking, why do unions and government workers have a problem with cutting back like the rest of us have had to do? (as well as private companies have done)
Leaders of the state’s largest state workers union say unprecedented times call for unprecedented measures.
Facing a hostile governor, a bad economy, and the very real prospect of layoffs next year, the Communications Workers of America is asking its 40,000 state employee members to accept higher dues to pay for advertising campaigns that would push back against Gov. Chris Christie and other critics.
140
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0
Share “We’ve never really had this broad and direct an attack before,” said CWA Area Director Hetty Rosenstein. “We have in 30 years never raised our dues. We never had as great a need.”
Under the proposal, members would raise their dues one-tenth of one percent (to 1.25 percent of their salary) for a fund that would collect about $2 million a year for ads touting the importance of state workers.
The fund would be similar to one the New Jersey Education Association teachers union set up in the 1990s to tout public school teachers’ accomplishments. The union says its PRIDE in Public Education campaign highlighting public schools’ successes includes $5 million in advertising for the year.
“Our interests are ... to be able to educate elected officials and members of the public on what we really do, and to have the power to do that ourselves as opposed to relying on someone else’s definition or characterization of us,” Rosenstein said.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/06/labor_union_to_vote_on_forming.html#incart_rh