Missouri Voters Overturn Right-To-Work Measure

[Benton]

(08-08-2018, 10:38 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Well let’s make sure I understand the laws first. Maybe I’m off there. Can an employee be forced to pay dues even if the employer doesn’t mandate it?

The union, which isn’t a third party, it’s the fellow workers mandates it, not the employer.

A union is like a representative democracy. You vote on stuff. The stuff you vote on is what the negotiator (who you elected) talks to the boss (or most normally a representative of the boss) about.

People paint unions as all bad, but sometimes they vote as a group to take pay cuts to maintain operations. Or to deal with lesser equipment or cheaper contract labor. It’s like hostess a few years ago tried to say they were filing banlruptcy because of evil union demands. Well, prior to that the union took a pay cut to stay in business, but the company turned around and raised executive pay with the difference. So they went on strike.