To Be Announced...

The "fair share" grab-fest is already beginning.

Drivers' contract has 'fair share' language

About half of the Dubuque school district's 88 bus drivers and attendants do not belong to a union, but could see an automatic deduction from their paychecks for union fees under a four-year contract ratified this week.

The contract language was added in anticipation of the Legislature approving a "fair share" bill that would allow unions to assess nonunion public employees - including schoolteachers and city, county and state government workers - a fee for services they provide. The Iowa House is scheduled to debate the bill today.

Normally, downtrodden "working people" in a story like this would get all kinds of sympathy quotes and a tone that would lead a reader to side with the "little guy." But these are union thugs we're talking about, so off with their heads!

Not one non-union member who might be subject to the new forced fee is quoted in the story. Probably too scared to say anything for fear of having his tires slashed and kneecaps broken by his now "union brothers"

The amount nonunion workers would pay is yet to be determined. The Dubuque school board ratified the contract Monday night. It was one of the first public employee contracts finished since legislative debate over fair share began.

"It's a good move for organized labor and for our members," said John Rosenthal, a representative of Teamsters Local 421, which negotiated the Dubuque contract. "We feel good to have it in the contract and to have it pass as law, even if it's just for the public sector. It kind of brings unity in the group, gets people more involved."

That is such crap. It'll bring unity to the group? Forced unity. The Taliban would be proud.

I wonder how Rosenthal can say that with a straight face.

Notice also in all of these discussions about "fair share" and forcing non-union members to pony up even if they don't want to...that nobody ever suggests that it could be revenue neutral. Why don't they offer to lower the union dues of members in exchange? Though still wrong, it might make non-members feel better because it won't be seen as just a grab for their money.

That's because it IS a grab for their money. Although the forced fee isn't set, I'm sure they'll have that worked out by the time more of those Presidential candidates come a'courtin...

The controversial legislation comes as many Iowa public employee unions are in the midst of bargaining - leaving some in a quandary over whether to include the provision in their contracts. "Their concern was if they're in negotiations now and this legislation passes a week later, they can't do anything for the duration of the contract," said Mark Smith, president of the Iowa Federation of Labor.

"There's way too many unanswered questions," said Lana Oppenheim Schlapkohl, an ISEA spokeswoman. "How do you even determine what the fee is, how's it going to work?"

And the duration of the contract could be too late to use the excess cash to put in the pockets of candidates.

Like I said. You determine the fee based on how much it'll cost you to buy support from those Democrat candidates.

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