Originally Posted by
Route66
If unions are to survive, the ONLY way they will is if they are willing to accept accessment from outside and revise their business model. That will be when pigs fly, because the money is where their power is. Managing principles is where the power is. NOT THE MONEY.
"Money is where their power is" because it's where everyone's power is. Try to hire using organizing principles as a compensation basis, you'll be in charge of exactly one guy. What is your union selling? Is it making good on that arrangement? How membership "manages" those perceptions, for themselves, will greatly determine the effectiveness of and satisfaction with, any bargaining in progress. Repealing agency shop fee statutes means less money. Less money is less power, every time.