Joe Canadian pays taxes to government’
Government hires and pays Public Servants.
Public Servants pay union dues to PSAC, the public servants union.
PSAC pays for advertising against Steven Harper and the Conservatives, making their advertising partisan. (I heard ads running on CFRA radio here in Ottawa this week.)
i.e. PSAC is laundering money from Joe Canadian to partisan politics.
Another way, we as taxpayers, get Officially Screwed.
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I am unaware of any union not doing the same, and I have a major problem with that. Employees are forced to pay union dues, like it or not, and then have no say when the money is used for all kinds of non union business. In Canada this remains an area where we lack freedom and where there is no choice.
With PSAC, like other unions, new employees are free to indicate they do not wish to join, but nonetheless union dues will be deducted from their pay.
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I was so insulted as a new public servant to be FORCED to pay unions dues to a union that took my money and gave it to political parties that I did not support! Someone should challenge this on freedom of association!
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The battle has been joined in the United States; the protests in Wisconsin were triggered in large part because the Unions ability to automatically collect dues from the employer had been cancelled by new laws and regulations; the union needed to collect dues directly from members. Past experience in “Right to Work” states showed a dramatic reduction in membership dues, no way the WI union would allow that to happen there.
Fleebagger senators, “sick ins” by teachers and the rest of the spectacle all revolve around retaining the uninterrupted flow of money. Good thing they lost in the end.