By Rick Karlin
Albany - The 2018 elections are still more than a year away, but some of New
York’s major public employee unions are starting to mobilize – not so
much for political candidates, but for their own members.
Rather than setting up the familiar get-out-the-vote operations such
as phone banks and door-to-door campaigns, leaders of unions like the
Civil Service Employees Association and the Public Employees Federation
are working to educate their rank-and-file about the benefits of being
in a union, even if it means a weekly paycheck deduction.
That’s because labor experts believe the U.S. Supreme Court, after
failing to do so in 2016, may render a decision next year that would ban
“agency fees” or the practice in which union members are compelled to
pay union dues whether they want to or not.
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Source: timesunion.com (via The Empire Report)
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