{"id":395,"date":"2008-11-26T08:31:19","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T08:31:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:15:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:15:12","slug":"fact-check-forced-dues-equals-forced-unionism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/fact-check-forced-dues-equals-forced-unionism\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: Forced Dues Equals Forced Unionism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nOn Monday, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review<\/i> published an editorial<\/a> criticizing the special privileges Pennsylvania law gives to teacher unions:\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe Pennsylvania State Education Association causes untold damage to kids, taxpayers and the commonwealth. Few Pennsylvanians know how costly is this teacher union. But the public has the power to tame the beast.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWith more than 185,500 members, 281 full-time employees and an annual income above $84 million, the PSEA is one of the state’s wealthiest, largest and most politically active labor unions, reports The Commonwealth Foundation, a public-policy, free-market think tank in Harrisburg.\n\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe PSEA has had cancerlike growth because of its ability to organize employees into collective bargaining units, influence legislation through its puppets that the union’s political action committee helped to elect, and push for endless amounts of public financing for public schools, which usually ends up in union members’ pockets.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yesterday, the PSEA lied in response<\/a>: <\/p>\n

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\n\tContrary to the editorial, Pennsylvania is not a "compulsory" union state. Act 84, the Fair Share Fee law, preserves the right of all teachers and school employees to join or not to join a union.\n\t<\/p>\n

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\n\tBut unions are legally required to represent each member of their bargaining units (including nonmembers) fairly and without discrimination. So it is reasonable for unions to charge nonmembers a fee for the costs of negotiating a collective bargaining agreement, as well as enforcing their collective bargaining agreements through processing grievances.\n\t<\/p>\n

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\nThere is no question that Pennsylvania is a compulsory unionism state.\u00a0 That’s an outright lie from the PSEA.\u00a0 Further, this is a common refrain from union bosses, who refuse to mention that the only reason they must "represent" nonmembers because they <\/i>seek monopoly bargaining over all employees, not just members.\n<\/p>\n

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\nThe truth is that excellent teachers, who would often rather represent themselves in negotiations with school district officials, have no choice but to accept a union’s so-called "representation." That usually means good teachers are forced to accept lower compensation than they could get if they negotiated on their own behalf.\n<\/p>\n

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\nFor more on teacher union abuses in Pennsylvania and other compulsory unionism states, check out this op-ed<\/a> in the Tribune-Review<\/i> by Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation.\n<\/p>\n

\nFor more on the issue of compulsory unionism and education, see this video<\/a> and listen to this podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\nOn Monday, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review<\/i> published an editorial<\/a> criticizing the special privileges Pennsylvania law gives to teacher unions:\n<\/p>\n

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\n\tWith more than 185,500 members, 281 full-time employees and an annual income above $84 million, the PSEA is one of the state’s wealthiest, largest and most politically active labor unions, reports The Commonwealth Foundation, a public-policy, free-market think tank in Harrisburg.\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"\nFact Check: Forced Dues Equals Forced Unionism - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/fact-check-forced-dues-equals-forced-unionism\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fact Check: Forced Dues Equals Forced Unionism - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On Monday, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review published an editorial criticizing the special privileges Pennsylvania law gives to teacher unions: The Pennsylvania State Education Association causes untold damage to kids, taxpayers and the commonwealth. 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