Hello John,   
      
    BK>> There is no forced unionism in any state.   
      
   JM>Youn didn't finish you left off   
      
   JM>there is no forced unionism, you don't have to join a union   
   JM>just pay the dues.   
      
   Bob forgets that collective bargaining is not unionism, but   
   merely a business arrangement agreed upon by two or more parties.   
   That's all it is.  Kind of like a musician having an agent, or a   
   client having a lawyer.  Nothing more, nothing less.   
      
   What unions are today are coerced unions.  Some states have   
   a "closed shop" or a "union shop" - meaning that folks who want   
   to be employed *must* join or remain in a union that supposedly   
   "represents" their best interests.  However, the reality is   
   the only interests those unions are representing are the interests   
   of the union leadership.  The workers themselves have no say.   
   They just foot the bill.   
      
   What is needed is a National Right to Work Law.  Without such   
   a law, workers will continue to leave industrial states (such as   
   Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc.) for greener pastures   
   (mostly in the South and other Right To Work states).  This has been   
   clearly demonstrated by comparing loss of income of folks in forced   
   unionism states, as folks do tend to move to where the money is -   
      
   http://www.nrtwc.org/taxpayers-fleeing-forced-unionism-states/   
      
   Governor Walker's resounding victory in Wisconsin showed the entire   
   nation not only how weak unions are in his own state, but also in the   
   entire region.  Workers are simply tired of the BS, having been misled   
   by unions for decades.  People want to be free, and Governor Walker is   
   giving them that freedom.   
      
   Unions today are a threat not only to Republicans, but also to liberty.   
   And that means today's unions are a threat to everybody, regardless of   
   political affiliation.  As such, we have a duty and an obligation to   
   end forced unionism in this country - now and forever.   
      
   Anti-democratic despots are scared to death of a free, productive   
   workplace throughout this great land of ours.  Let's give them what   
   they hate and fear the most.  :)   
      
   --Lee   
      
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