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Majority sees decline of union membership as bad for US and working people (www.pewresearch.org)

submitted 1 month ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@sh.itjust.works

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[–] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I really wish we had enforceable laws against bold faced lies like these. There really should be penalties for bad faith arguments and manipulation.

[–] Drewmeister@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Well, they aren't lying. It's true that I'd still get all my union benefits if I stopped paying into it.* I'm sure I work with people who don't pay, and they probably feel like they're smarter than the rest of us. The mailers just conveniently leave out the context that what I pay into the union has been returned tenfold by their actions, and to hurt the union is to ultimately hurt myself.

* the reason this is true is because a law exists that says that unions cannot require represented employees to pay into them, but the contracts agreed to by the union affect positions, not people, so they still benefit.