I've considered it, though I'd still pay dues out of a sense of shared responsibility for the expenses of running the union. It would probably be required, anyway, but even if it weren't, I'd always pull my weight financially.

But I'd sleep easier, probably. Pay the dues and let the chips fall where they may, since people in SFS have essentially been unrepresented for 12 years now. We were hosed in '98 and '06, each time being told that our issues were too minor to deal with. And now the membership was sold on the pap we were fed -- namely, "we'll build on this next time." Like hay-yull they will ... they had a PERFECT opportunity to build on the SFS experience, which was "FDA 1.0", and they failed to come through. It's just pathetic.