{"id":256,"date":"2008-05-02T17:15:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T17:15:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:17:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:17:03","slug":"fact-check-the-source-of-big-labor-s-forced-dues-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/fact-check-the-source-of-big-labor-s-forced-dues-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: The Source of Big Labor\u2019s Forced Dues Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nThe Rocky Mountain News<\/i> recently published a misleading op-ed<\/a> by union organizer James Hansen. The article contains a number of misleading claims, but the following passage\u2019s description of a Right to Work law is so fundamentally wrong that it has to be addressed:\n<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cA right-to-work [sic] law would allow the government to intervene in labor-management relations, undermining the freedom that employers and workers now have to negotiate the best agreement possible for both sides.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nUnion officials in Colorado already have government granted power to force every employee – member or not – to pay union dues as a condition of keeping their job (or getting a job in the first place). No other organization or association is allowed to extort forced fees from individuals.\n<\/p>\n

\nState Right to Work protections simply eliminate this extraordinary government intervention, which is the exact opposite Hansen\u2019s claim.\n<\/p>\n

\nFurther, if Hansen was really concerned with government intervention into employer-employee relations, he would call for the repeal of government imposed monopoly bargaining (that allows union officials to forcibly represent every employee) or the numerous other special government-granted powers<\/a> that unions have.\n<\/p>\n

\nBut contrary to Hansen\u2019s assertion, union officials are not at all concerned about preventing government intervention into employee-employer relations, as they long ago rejected AFL-CIO founder Samuel Gompers’ call for purely voluntary unionism. For the better part of the last 100 years, union bosses have built their empire on special government-granted powers, with forced dues as the most glaring example of the power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\nThe Rocky Mountain News<\/i> recently published a misleading op-ed<\/a> by union organizer James Hansen. The article contains a number of misleading claims, but the following passage\u2019s description of a Right to Work law is so fundamentally wrong that it has to be addressed:\n<\/p>\n

\n

\n\t\u201cA right-to-work [sic] law would allow the government to intervene in labor-management relations, undermining the freedom that employers and workers now have to negotiate the best agreement possible for both sides.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nUnion officials in Colorado already have government granted power to force every employee – member or not – to pay union dues as a condition of keeping their job (or getting a job in the first place). 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