And here’s why – from Inside Higher Ed:
…The first, which was reported favorably by the Appropriations Committee to the House, would bar any public union from automatically deducting dues from members’ paychecks. Specifically, the language of the bill would bar deductions for dues that fund an employee organization or its political activity. The measure also would require unions to get written authorization, each fiscal year, from members to use their money. Unions would, moreover, have to produce reports detailing their revenues and expenses over the preceding 24 months…
Unions will fight this tooth and nail because it cuts in to their main function – money laundering for the Democrat political campaigns. Essentially, the unions are just slush funds for politics…collective bargaining takes a gigantic back seat to providing the funds to elect Democrats who will expand the size of government, thus expanding the number of dues-paying union members, thus providing more funds to elect Democrats, ad-nauseum. This is what it really is all about – don’t buy stories about “workers rights” or other such nonsense…this is about raw, political power and the money necessary to secure it.
On its merits, the law must be enacted – before any group proposes to speak for a person, that group must first obtain permission…and getting it in writing is just the best and most secure means of doing so. If you don’t get permission, you can’t act on that person’s behalf, period. This is a very American act – it holds, per the principles of our Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, that the individual must be allowed to govern himself…and those who would act in place of a person must do so only by consent.
These are the sorts of laws we need to de-fund the left and restore American constitutional government – and I hope more and more States and localities will follow suit.
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