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Topic: Maryland teachers union
wants nonmembers to pay fee |
Maryland teachers union
wants nonmembers to pay fee
Washington Examiner, by Andy Brownfield
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 1/14/2013 11:47:19 AM
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| Maryland´s largest teachers union wants school employees who aren´t members of a union to pay union fees. Del. Sheila Hixson, D-Montgomery County, will introduce a bill on behalf of the Maryland State Education Association to require nonunion educators to pay a so-called fair share fee to unions equivalent to about 68 percent of the local dues. Under Maryland law, local teachers unions are required to negotiate contracts that cover all educators, whether or not they are members of the union. They also must represent nonunion educators in grievances. Association spokesman Adam Mendelson said the bill wouldn´t
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Comments:
They want nonunion educators to pay a fair share fee?? That sure takes alot of chutzpah! The insanity coming from these insane radicals is extremely tiresome. They just never quit.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
VinGoombatz, 1/14/2013 11:51:38 AM (No. 9115745)
How about asking Del. Sheila Hixson,D-Montgomery County, to shove it up her fat
oops...sorry.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
chatham, 1/14/2013 12:02:17 PM (No. 9115773)
These teachers have no souls.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
upstate54, 1/14/2013 12:13:48 PM (No. 9115785)
You had to see this coming.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
miceal, 1/14/2013 12:16:48 PM (No. 9115791)
How´s about this, BAN all Public Sector Unions!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
PChristopher, 1/14/2013 12:17:58 PM (No. 9115793)
Things like this are just getting completely out of hand and I fear that we may soon see this whole society hit a wall where people who actually produce and who are interested in actually doing a good job finally get sick and tired of listening to crud like this and being threatened by union slugs and are finally going to fight back...
...but not with heated words.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
GreatGreyhounds, 1/14/2013 12:18:00 PM (No. 9115794)
Why stop there Sheila! How about asking the taxpayers to pay your union dues for you?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mamafrog, 1/14/2013 12:23:06 PM (No. 9115806)
I see no problem with negotiating for all teachers, but if they have to represent those who are not union members when there is a problem that is a conflict of interest. Perhaps they should not be required to represent non-members and those non members should purchase liability insurance. That is what teachers here in Oklahoma do when they choose not to join the union. It is very inexpensive insurance.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rabidrabbit1, 1/14/2013 12:25:20 PM (No. 9115809)
If this law is passed, sue the unions! Force them to state what portion of their outlays are for working directly for the employees, and what portion is for lobbying. I bet 68% is an overestimate, by far.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
nhchemist, 1/14/2013 12:26:37 PM (No. 9115811)
I actually agree with the concept. However... the teacher´s union must make its books public, and be audited by a recognised independent auditing firm. The fee paid by any non-union teacher would be the direct cost of the negotiations, not union leadership salaries and benefits, political expenses and the myriad other garbage extracted as dues.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Keekng, 1/14/2013 1:00:46 PM (No. 9115895)
Such actions used to be called extortion.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
kiltedone, 1/14/2013 1:07:51 PM (No. 9115911)
Why don´t they just rob them in the parking lot. It would be quicker.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
faith_and_reason, 1/14/2013 1:17:29 PM (No. 9115937)
#9 writes that the plan seems okay as long as "[t]he fee paid by any non-union teacher would be the direct cost of the negotiations..."
The problem with that ideal is that the negotiations themselves (and "agreements" arrived at) have hidden costs, costs the non-union member may wish to oppose. Union agreements typically extort "benefits" by means of lost management flexibility, lost job opportunity or advancement for new and younger employees, loss of accountability to parents and taxpayers, higher taxes, etc.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
eorsc, 1/14/2013 1:31:04 PM (No. 9115968)
Just say NO.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Crosscut, 1/14/2013 1:41:59 PM (No. 9115991)
Extortion.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
post cretaceous, 1/14/2013 1:52:46 PM (No. 9116012)
This is the opposite of what the voters in Michigan and Wisconsin just achieved! They finally got out of having the unions´ taking non-member´s money to use for their own greedy means. The people of Maryland have this right and the unions want to take it away. They want to change it so they can legally steal from non-union members.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Kurto, 1/14/2013 2:07:03 PM (No. 9116047)
It´s not extortion, it´s ´protection.´
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
MissMann, 1/14/2013 3:13:29 PM (No. 9116158)
Not sure if this is a way to get teachers at charter schools to pay into the union (we don´t current;y) but the union does NOT negotiate anything for charter school teachers.
One of the reasons charters work so much better than other public schools is that we do NOT have the union. If a teacher sucks, they´re gone--sometimes the next DAY!
They aren´t perfect, but charters provide choice. Let´s not mess that up by bringing them under union control.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
bobgray2, 1/14/2013 3:16:57 PM (No. 9116165)
Kind of like the street corner thugs who walk up uninvited to your car at the traffic light and start washing your window, then demand a few dollars while making sure you see the sharp bottle opener in their hand.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
lakerman1, 1/14/2013 3:41:18 PM (No. 9116205)
A union is the exclusive bargaining representative for all of the member of the bargaining unit, members or not. If the union allowed non members to settle their own grievances with the employer, all sorts of bad precedents would be established. There is also case law, going back to 1945, called the duty of fair representation, coming out of a steelworkers´ case in Alabama, where a black worker didn´t get promoted, and the union declined to represent him.
What Maryland is proposing is called Agency Shop, where non members pay fees for the costs of representation. Pennsylvania has that already, and in the 14 state university system, the agency fee is about 95% of regular dues.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 1/14/2013 5:05:06 PM (No. 9116352)
I don´t think the union spends one iota of time representing nonunion members. Nonunion members do not vote in union elections, and don´t give a whit about the union. If nonunion members want representation, they can elect representative among themselves, thank you.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
hamrman, 1/14/2013 6:05:48 PM (No. 9116451)
Phat chance!
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