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To: mel221 who wrote (657389)	6/2/2012 12:17:33 AM
From: joseffy	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1572369

What does LSD boy bentwayover have to say about that one? LOL

To: mel221 who wrote (657389)	6/2/2012 12:42:37 AM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	3 Recommendations Respond to of 1572369

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker to win the 5 June 2012 recall election Chance 95.8% That would be SUPER!

To: mel221 who wrote (657389)

6/2/2012 1:10:28 AM

From: THE WATSONYOUTH

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Wisconsin teachers choose not to pay union dues. Union is laying off HQ staff. Updates.

WEAC offices.

WEAC now has to count on loyal members to pay dues voluntarily.
Thus far things don’t seem to be going well. WEAC announced August 15th that it will be laying off 42 employees, or about 40 percent of its workforce, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. (This brought outrage from WEAC's staff union the NSO).
Teachers have apparently been slow to provide WEAC with bank account information for direct dues payments, despite the teams of “home visitors” that have been dispatched. Told from a union-supportive view. And from a less sympathetic view. Discussed by Breitbart: Do Layoffs Mean the WI Teachers Union Is on the Financial Ropes?

WEAC's own website says this: "Under changes to Wisconsin's collective bargaining law, if you do not have an extended contract, you must sign up annually to continue your WEAC membership. To remain a WEAC member, we ask that you complete an Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) form. Credit card payment is now also an option".

Added from George Will: Payments also fell in Colorado, Indiana and Washington.

George Will

After Colorado in 2001 required public employees unions to have annual votes reauthorizing collection of dues, membership in the Colorado Association of Public Employees declined 70 percent. In 2005, Indiana stopped collecting dues from unionized public employees; in 2011, there are 90 percent fewer dues-paying members. In Utah, the end of automatic dues deductions for political activities in 2001 caused teachers’ payments to fall 90 percent. After a similar law passed in 1992 in Washington state, the percentage of teachers making such contributions declined from 82 to 11.
Democrats furiously oppose Walker because public employees unions are transmission belts, conveying money to the Democratic Party. Last year, $11.2 million in union dues was withheld from paychecks of Wisconsin’s executive branch employees and $2.6 million from paychecks at the university across the lake. Having spent improvidently on the recall elections, the Wisconsin Education Association Council, the teachers union, is firing 40 percent of its staff.

Added: And some teachers are retiring early rather than pay more to their pension plan. Seniority and pensions used to be the priority but more younger teachers will now be hired. In one district, seniority went from first to sixth place as a criterion for filling a job opening.

Related: Do Indiana teachers have to pay union dues?

To: mel221 who wrote (657389)	6/2/2012 1:11:53 AM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1572369

Dismantling the Union Monopoly: Wisconsin teachers union to lay off 40% of staff Posted by Robbie Cooper at 9:22 am Add comments Aug 162011 Form the Elections Have Consequences department, we see one of the huge wins for Conservatives in Wisconsin unfolding this week. Since Wisconsin unions are no longer allowed to garnish the wages of their members and forceably take dues from their pay checks — instead, having to rely on those teachers to voluntarily pay union dues (feign surprise: most won’t), the union bosses and lackeys are having to lay off their bloated pay rolls. Tiny violins and all that. Via Red State: For years, the Wisconsin Education Association Council maintained a virtual monopoly on Wisconsin’s education system, raking in $25 million in union dues from teachers in 2009. Moreover, it also controls an insurance trust called the WEA Trust, which gave the union the ability to “sell” (though negotiations) school districts health insurance for teachers–often at a premium price. According to WHBL in Sheboygan, WEAC’s monopoly has suddenly shrunk, thanks to Scott Walker’s government-union reform law. And from that WHBL article: Wisconsin’s largest teachers’ union plans to lay off 40% of its staff members. Director Dan Burkhalter of the Wisconsin Education Association Council said Monday that 42 people who work for the union had received layoff notices. And he blamed it on what he called Governor Scott Walker’s “union-busting” legislation. The law allows teachers in districts without ongoing contracts to bargain only for salaries at-or-below inflation. Employees no longer have to pay union dues, and most public unions must hold certification votes each year to stay in existence. Burkhalter says WEAC is busy signing up members to stay with the group and voluntarily pay dues. He said the teachers’ union has made quote, “steady progress in signing up members” – and they expect even more progress once the school year begins in a couple weeks.