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Omaha Steve

(99,795 posts)
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 04:32 AM Apr 2015

UAW members get information on how to leave union

Source: freep.com

UAW members can stop paying dues after Michigan's right-to-work law starts applying to the union's members this fall, but few experts expect a rush to leave the union.

By Nathan Bomey

About three dozen UAW workers gathered today in Sterling Heights to get advice on how leave the union or stop paying dues after Michigan's right-to-work law starts applying to the Detroit-based union.

The meeting, the first of two scheduled today, came as the UAW was gearing up to begin the first round of contract bargaining negotiations with General Motors, Ford and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles since Michigan's right-to-work law took effect in 2013.

It's the first cycle in which UAW members can refuse to pay full union dues and still keep their jobs because the law applies only to newly signed contracts.

FULL story at link.



(Photo: Nathan Bomey, Detroit Free Press)

Read more: http://www./story/money/cars/2015/04/29/right-to-work-ford-sterling-plant/26570353/

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UAW members get information on how to leave union (Original Post) Omaha Steve Apr 2015 OP
And if ............ turbinetree Apr 2015 #1
These right to work laws are nothing but Corp over people marym625 Apr 2015 #2
Here's a corrected link to the story... SpankMe Apr 2015 #3
This guy is a Republican UAW worker... CANDO Apr 2015 #4
Let's end freeloading then. Starry Messenger Apr 2015 #5

turbinetree

(24,735 posts)
1. And if ............
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 09:16 AM
Apr 2015

any of these union members join this right to work for less right wing discriminatory hypocrisy ----------then lets call it like it is --------------your a scab, you are a scab and a free loader.
You support the drinking of the Kool--Aid of the republican mantra---your a scab----you are being used for the simple fact of greed and to divide and conquer----that's what right to work is all about

 

CANDO

(2,068 posts)
4. This guy is a Republican UAW worker...
Thu Apr 30, 2015, 05:55 PM
Apr 2015

And a clueless idiot. I was a Teamster for nearly 22 years, and it goads their asses that unions largely support political parties and candidates that support pro labor policies. What I can't wrap my brain around, is why the average R union member thinks that's a bad thing for him/her. Wouldn't they "want" their work experiences supported with political legislation. Unions exist politically, and they don't get that.

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