Originally Posted by
guppie
Membership is always optional. You don't have to join the union. You just have to pay your fair share (association fee) of it's cost. After all, Duty of Fair Representation is the law. It states that if your job is covered by a CBA, you will receive the same hard fought pay and bennies as members...even as a nonmember. 'Right to Work' just allows you to be a nonmember AND a freeloader. 'Bankrupt the Unions' is what the legislation should be called. Once the union is gone, we can all fly heavies for Skywest, dba UA,DL, and AA. It'll be swell.
Right to Work does not make you a freeloader. It gives the worker the right NOT to pay homage to a union with which he or she disagrees. Compulsory union membership or compulsory dues is unconstitutional. That is what I was referring to when I said, "make union membership optional." This has been well established. Workers aren't freeloaders. The money they pay to unions is not their leverage. The work they do on the shop floor (cockpits for us airline types) is their leverage. Without this work, union bosses would have zilch. BTW, what percentage of your dues goes to the national union? Want a union that REALLY works for pilots? Elect a union that ONLY represents your work group. Make it so that 100% of your dues goes to your pilots and your contract negotiations, etc.