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Old Sun Oct 15, 2006, 08:55pm
mbyron mbyron is offline
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Originally Posted by GarthB
I believe you have made two errors. First, in situations where one is not a member of the union but receives the benefits of the unions negotiations, the union contract with management normally requires that person to still pay a fee to the union that is equal to the dues that members pay.

This is the case with teacher's unions and several trade unions of which I am aware.
This is correct, more or less, regarding the union that negotiates my contract. The "Fair Share" fee that non-members pay includes the costs of both negotiating and enforcing the contract, and according to the union this amount is approximately 98% of union dues. This union, however, does almost nothing else.
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