Speaking of "card check," a Washington State University student is calling out the United Auto Workers union on its recent use of a deceptive "card check" drive to forcibly unionize academic student employees. The student writes:
Several students were led to believe they were signing to get
information or support exploring the efficacy of students unionizing.
With a sense of urgency and high pressure tactics, many students filled
out cards.
In addition to noting that students would be forced to pay dues if the UAW was installed, the student adds:
We find it insulting to our intelligence and levels of educational
achievement to mislead, misrepresent and misinform us to gain student
support.
As Karen Mayhew, a National Right to Work Foundation-aided employee from Portland, Oregon, told Congress last year:
...union abuses of a wide variety are the rule in 'card check' campaigns, not the exception.
All the more reason that employees should be aware of their rights during a "card check" drive.









Comments
Right to work
I do not like union harassment. Although when a persons lively hood is threatened, people respond in a veriety of ways. As for the forced union dues issue, I am forced to take union dues from my check because I work in a non right to work state, but I am also forced to take home $55/hr with benefits, where people in my trade that work in right to work states get to enjoy 20/hr with no benefits. My dues total about 2.25% of my total pay and this gets me around $100k a year. (small price to pay for good wages don,t you think?)
Threatening a person's livelyhood should not be condoned.
You basically just said that you're okay with paying out money that you earned just to get your wages! How silly is that! Pay out money--to receive money--that you worked hard for...
Juan Vielma said it best: "I work to get paid...I don't pay to work."
Think about it.