Originally Posted by
BobZ
Well now....... seeing as the vast majority of our 'dues' money is spent on everything BUT our council, your complaints are a little late to the party.
National is relatively unencumbered with restrictions on spending. They spend dues on car allowances, housing allowances, pensions, political activities, social activities, and you wonder if spending some of that money on helping another AFL-CIO affiliate in a representation effort would be illegal?
As long as there is no assessment for that kind of thing, I couldn't care less. Is it a waste of money? Probably. I will vote unequivocally vote no on anything that contains a provision to assess our membership to organize the FAs. ymmv.