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<blockquote data-quote="SMS" data-source="post: 2014510" data-attributes="member: 42">Most of the &quot;benefits&quot; are now codified in federal and state labor laws.&nbsp; The union doesn&#039;t &#039;give them&#039; and you can&#039;t take them away just because at one time in the past they were born from union action.&nbsp; I agree that if I am not a member of the union I shouldn&#039;t get union representation if I have a management issue.&nbsp; I have had management issues and, since I am not a union member, I didn&#039;t go to the union even though people told me to.&nbsp; I worked it out myself.&nbsp; It&#039;s an integrity thing.&nbsp; If I see my union doing more than negotiating mandatory leave the day after Thanksgiving and union leaders doing more than playing dominos during the duty day, I might join.The central issue, despite all the &quot;benefit&quot; talk, is still mandatory membership and dues.&nbsp; Everything else is subordinate to that....no one who calls themselves a conservative or libertarian can support mandatory union membership as a condition of employment in a chosen profession.Like someone said, where are the horror stories from all the states with RTW now?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SMS, post: 2014510, member: 42"] Most of the "benefits" are now codified in federal and state labor laws. The union doesn't 'give them' and you can't take them away just because at one time in the past they were born from union action. I agree that if I am not a member of the union I shouldn't get union representation if I have a management issue. I have had management issues and, since I am not a union member, I didn't go to the union even though people told me to. I worked it out myself. It's an integrity thing. If I see my union doing more than negotiating mandatory leave the day after Thanksgiving and union leaders doing more than playing dominos during the duty day, I might join. The central issue, despite all the "benefit" talk, is still mandatory membership and dues. Everything else is subordinate to that....no one who calls themselves a conservative or libertarian can support mandatory union membership as a condition of employment in a chosen profession. Like someone said, where are the horror stories from all the states with RTW now? [/QUOTE]

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