Union Auto Workers president Bob King has compared paying union dues to paying taxes for public works.
That's meant to curb the use of union dues for political purposes.
One bright idea is to renegotiate contracts now to lock teachers into paying union dues after the right-to-work law goes into effect in March.
Along with similar measures previously enacted in 23 other states, the legislation prohibits contracts that make payment of union dues a condition of employment.
SEIU, the latest in a line of cases protecting the First Amendment rights of workers who are required by state law to pay union dues.
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Some critics say public-sector unions are funded by what is essentially taxpayer cash, since member salaries, and therefore union dues, come directly from state budgets.
Mr. Walker believes the union brass are most furious about his policy to stop automatically withholding union dues from the paychecks of approximately 300, 000 municipal workers.
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Bush also wants a provision he calls "paycheck protection, " which would prevent contributions generated by union dues from going to political parties or candidates without workers' knowledge.
Once an agency shop has been established, all employees are required to pay union dues, even if they would prefer not to be represented by the union.
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Next year, a ballot initiative in California will invite voters to ban the use of union dues for political causes, unless members approve of them in writing.
Once that happens, as the Journal explains, under the Walker reforms the state stops withholding union dues from the employees paychecks unless the employee asks to pay them.
Canada and the U.S. both allow deductions for union dues.
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The regulations go on to provide as examples of deductible employee expenses costs incurred for transportation, lodging, meals, continuing education, union dues, professional uniforms, and job hunting costs if not reimbursed by the employer.
Census money income is defined as income received on a regular basis (exclusive of certain money receipts such as capital gains) before payments for personal income taxes, social security, union dues and medicare deductions.
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Taxable unemployment benefits paid from regular union dues.
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The earnings of government employee unions grow when they can boost the pay of the workers they represent, not to mention add new individuals to the growing list of government workers who pay union dues.
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Moreover, Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act allows religious objectors opposed to joining a union to direct all money they would normally pay in union dues or agency fees to a non-religious charity of their choice.
Unions may prefer competetive markets between unionized competitors (because more unionized workers means more union dues), but the last thing they want is competition between unionized and non-unionized competitors, and they fight tooth and nail to eliminate those non-unionized competitors.
Between 2011 and 2012, voters in Wisconsin rejected a union-led recall of Governor Scott Walker over new Wisconsin laws allowing workers to opt out of unions and not requiring the state government to take employee union dues out of paychecks.
"As the daughter of parents who worked in factories, paid their union dues and achieved their goal of a middle class life, and as the first Latina to head a major federal agency, it has been an incredible honor to serve, " she wrote.
In addition, many of the alleged benefits of joining, say, a teachers union liability insurance, for instance can be procured from non-union professional associations (such as the Association of American Educators) at far less than the cost of union dues.
Mr Daniels, in Indiana, has proposed a similar measure, although he opposes a move by the state legislature to allow employees in any unionised workplace to opt out of paying union dues, as Mr Walker also proposes, for fear it will spark a knock-down drag-out fight with the labour movement.
Perhaps this helps explain why, according to education journalist and union watchdog Mike Antonucci, top officials of the National Education Association are reporting a decline of 150, 000 members over the past two years and project that they will lose 200, 000 more members by 2014, as several states have recently passed laws ending the automatic deduction of union dues from teachers' paychecks.
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By definition, right-to-work laws grant workers the freedom to reject union membership dues, even if they join a union and enjoy all its benefits.
Union membership dues, in contrast, no longer qualify for tax relief.
It may sound obvious, and it is a far cry from the days when union reps collected dues and the brothers met in the canteen.
"When a public-sector union imposes a special assessment of dues increase, the union must provide a fresh ... notice and may not exact any funds from nonunion members without their affirmative consent, " Alito added.
Moreover, the entire Northeast and West Coast is anti-right-to-work, meaning that workers employed in unionized workplaces may be required to join the union and pay dues that might go toward political causes they disagree with.
Ignoring the free rider question, they demand to know why anyone should be compelled to pay dues to a union in order to have a job.
And he has insisted that any reform bill mandate a choice for union members on whether their dues can be diverted to political candidates -- most often Democrats.
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