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Originally Posted by GarthB
Unions are entitled by federal law to force non members covered by their contracts to pay dues. If he was covered, he paid. I know of no union that will not take full benefit of what the law allows.
Your point could have been made without exploiting the death, and the imagery of the family, of this young man.
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So you are saying a "closed shop" is Federal law? None, I repeat none, of the unions associated with the United States Postal Service (a branch of the Federal government) require that a person that is employed in any craft or management position belong or pay dues to the union that is associated with which position they are employed.
Now your just blowing smoke out your a** to sound smart. Sometimes you have to consider the source. He was "blackballed" out of his union. Do you expect him to pay dues also? He more than likely contributed to this pension. I would have to read their contract to be totally accurate, but I have dealt enough with different unions to know what flies and what doesn't. I've worked enough arbitration and EEOC complaints to tell what is what.
I usually didn't deal with the inner working of the unions themselves, but I knew a good grievance or EEO complaint when I saw one. They usually went hand in hand.
I wonder what Thurman Munson's widow gets a year? I'd bet is is less than a quarter of what Lidle is getting. The union has strengthened to say the least. I was merely pointing out how the MLBPA as strong as it has become was making sure that is family was provided for. Non-member or not. Not all unions are this powerful, but they all not the evil monsters they make them out to be.