Removed from job! Over Unaffordable Union Dues?

"Suspended membership" Reinstatement fees? "Plus owe other unexplained charges. "Removed from job" Off-the-Job letter etc...

I will be removed from my job because union dues are to expensive?

Are labor unions firing poor and underpaid workers simply because they cannot afford Union dues? If so then it is my opinion that labor unions are NOT putting Americans back to work.

Every week I get Notice of Suspension letters from the labor union.

I was laid-off in 2009 from a career job. I got part time jobs here and there until in December 2010 when I was offered a part time courtesty clerk at a local grocery store. I was made aware that i would be required to join a union if hired, but was not told the costs of the membership. I was also not told I had to contact the union within 30 days of being hired.

I finally contacted the union and filled out the paperwork. I put $60 dollars down, even though that was my grocery money. Then I got the bill. I have attached it as a pic.It was like a car payment. $73.00 for 9 months is what I would have to pay

I would end up paying over $700.00 in Union dues just to keep a minimum wage courtesy clerk job.

Also at that same store they have an open schedule policy which means you have to be available to work at the times and days they give you or you would be fired. So I had to give up a second job to work at that one job.

That courtesy clerk job is the ony job I have.

I have three college degrees, I am a military vet, and I still cannot get a job that will employ me full time.

I took the part time jobs because I was told they would lead to something better, but so far they have not, and two years after my initial lay-off I will be unemployed again, and will become homeless.

The pictures are snippets from the letters and bills from the labor union. I get leters everyweek that threathen to remove me from job unless come up with hundreds of dollars.