Paycheck protection. For Union Members to discipline their unions by forcing the unions to hold a vote on whether spending is used politically or to withhold dues from political purposes. The overwhelming majority of Union Members would like to see that done. Polls consistently show that Union Members want their union to get consent before spending dues on Political Activities. 66 approved and 14 disapproved the statement that it was unreasonable that unions are allows to spend dues on politics without getting member approval. 79 of Union Members believe that employees should have the right not to participate in their unions Political Support of specific candidates or parties. Were here today with people who are actually working on these in very specific cases. Im going to introduce them and let them take it away. Victor joecks to my left serves as executive director of National Employee freedom week which is a coalition of 68 groups in 40 states dedicated to helping union mechls to le
State to want to leave their union but do not know that they can, or when and how to do so, how many hundreds of thousands, or even millions of Union Members around the country want to do the same thing . Working with the association of tmerican educators we called i National Employee freedom week. That is this week. I am pleased to say that 81 organizations, which we have have to, in 45 states, come together with the sole purpose of letting people know that they have the ability to leave their union. You will hear from rebecca, robert, and jennifer and they stories aboutr trying to leave their unions. I want to tell you about the numbers that their stories represent. We decided to conduct a poll, a National Poll of Union Members asking if you could out out of your union without any penalty, would you do so . 454 Union Members across the country and over 28 said yes, i want to opt out of my union if i could do so without penalty. 14. 5 Union Members, so that is about 4 Million People w
I would ask everyone inhouse to make a courtesy check that your cell phones are off. We will post the program for your future reference. Youre always welcome to send your questions or comments. Hosting our discussion today is celine perth. Academic research focuses on the volatility in the developing world. Prior to joining us she was the assistant professor of economics at Amherst College of and a visiting Research Scholar at northeastern university. A masters degree in economics from rochester. Please join me in welcoming our speaker. [applause] thank you very much. It is good to see everyone here today. My colleague james, who really organized this event, apologizes he could not be here today. I am pleased to have the privilege of joining this panel to discuss unions and membership in unions. Labor unions are some of the largest political spenders in the United States. In the last midterm election, unions operated 10 of the 20 largest Political Action committees. They also made of t
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