Fighting The Political Power of Unions
SacBee reports: “Unions have blunted bids to curb political spending”
“It’s one thing for a state to pass a law forcing unions to get annual written consent before spending their members’ dues money on politics.
But it’s another thing entirely to make it work, as four of the five states with so-called “paycheck protection” laws on the books have learned.”
“With California voters poised to consider an employee-consent law for government workers on November’s special election ballot, only Utah is seeing its effort to check union political spending change the public policy world.”
This is exactly what Gov. Schwarzenegger is up against. California voters should realize what we’re fighting for: to curb the limits of special interests that manipulate the political system in order to control the direction of public policy.
The solution is simple and very democratic: union members should have the right to control how their dues are being spent.
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