Union Members already have choices about where their dues go: Vote No on 75

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Proposition 75 Does Nothing to Protect Union Members: Vote No



Deborah Lagutaris

Fact-Based Initiatives

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Years ago, union members were given a choice about whether their dues could be used to support political causes. At this very moment in time, members may opt out of paying a portion of their dues, or all dues, by directing the money to nonprofit organizations.



So Proposition 75 actually does nothing to protect members of unions. Nothing. But its passage would allow corporations to continue their campaign to avoid responsibility for the people who help them make their quarterly earnings projections. It will add another layer of bureaucratic recordkeeping onto an already burdened system.



In the meanwhile, I have few choices about the products or services I purchase. Nor I do not get to withhold that part of my purchase price that is used to further political aims with which I disagree. Since corporations outspend unions 10 to 1 already during political campaigns, I think that this is fundamentally unfair.



I want to be able to opt-out to that portion of my purchases that supports corporate control of my legislature. When you and I are able to stop supporting corporate political activity, which I am now forced to do on a daily basis, then at least a tiny movement towards balance might be restored to political debate.



Sure, some unions are corrupt and controlled by organized crime. So are some corporations.



People died so I could have a lunch break. People died so I could have an eight-hour work day. People died so I could have the weekend off. I never forget that. That wouldn't have happened without the labor movement. Please help to stop this undemocratic attempt to silence union voices, which protect more of your fundamental rights than most other organizations these days.

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The positive national discipline of the German press would never have been possible without the compete elimination of the influence of the liberal-Jewish press. That happened only because of the years-long work of our propaganda.
Joseph Goebbels, 1934