Union Sees Membership Plummet After Mandatory Dues Abolished

NEWSMAX: More than 80 percent of workers who care for the home-bound elderly and disabled in Michigan have ditched the Service Employees International Union since it was banned from taking mandatory dues out of assistance checks, a report said Wednesday…

According to the union’s filing with the federal Department of Labor, 44,347 home-based caregivers have rejected union membership — “virtually all of the long-term home-based caregivers affected by the dues skim,” the Center reported.

“It also is more than 80 percent of the 55,265 members the union claimed to have at the end on 2012.” … (more)

EDITOR: If we didn’t have to pay for our groceries, how many would?

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