It was not quite like making the major leagues, more like AAA ball, but it was still a full-fledged professional job in which I paid union dues and made a pretty good income for those days.

打比方说吧，这无法和加入全美职业棒球大联盟相提并论，而更象是加入一个AAA级棒球俱乐部，但它仍是一份正儿八经的成熟职业，我为此缴纳入伙费，并在那些日子里赚得丰厚的收入。

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If you fail to pay dues to a union that oversees maps, you may simply disappear, along with "buildings, streets; even whole districts".

如果你未能向监督这片区域的联盟支付税款，你就可能和“楼房、街道甚至是整个地区”简单地不复存在。

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Union Auto Workers president Bob King has compared paying union dues to paying taxes for public works.

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That's meant to curb the use of union dues for political purposes.

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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.

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