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Unions should stop tithing nonmembers with ‘fees’
The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper, The Examiner
Jun 5, 2008 12:00 AM (551 days ago)WASHINGTON

Public employee unions in 28 states now legally force an estimated 12 million nonunion members to pay “agency” fees in lieu of membership dues. The fees are meant to recognize that all employees benefit from union bargaining regardless if they are union members. That’s a reasonable argument, of course, but Big Labor’s lawyers have successfully argued for decades that virtually everything a union does anywhere benefits everybody, so nonmembers should have to pay the fees and shut up.

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