Durka-Durka-Muhammed-Jihad!!
There's no need for Proposition 75 - the unions already allow it's members to 'opt out' from using their dues for political purposes.
Really? Then explain this:
Judge rejects bid to halt union levy for ballot fightA Sacramento federal judge Friday rejected a request from about 4,000 state employees for an order barring special payroll deductions for a union fund to fight two of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's initiatives on Tuesday's ballot.
U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. had issued a temporary restraining order Wednesday prohibiting the deductions.
But after a lengthy hearing Friday, England decided not to issue a preliminary injunction, which would have remained in force until the lawsuit is resolved on its merits.
The governing body of the Service Employees International Union, Local 1000, which represents about 86,000 state employees, voted in August to deduct one-quarter of 1 percent of gross wages for the pay periods between Sept. 1 and Dec. 31 to combat Propositions 75 and 76 on Tuesday's ballot.
The assessment is being levied on the local's members and an additional 28,000 nonunion employees who work in categories covered by the local's collective bargaining agreements and who pay "fair share" dues to the union. About 4,000 of the latter group objected to the assessment because they do not oppose the two targeted initiatives.
The union projects the assessment will generate approximately $12 million for television and radio advertising, direct mail, voter registration and get-out-the-vote activities aimed at defeating the two propositions.See? It's easy for union members to 'opt out' from having their dues used for political purposes.....they just have to file a lawsuit to do it.The legal challenge was filed Tuesday by the Virginia-based National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation on behalf of eight nonunion employees and one member of the union. Their attorney, W. James Young, hopes to eventually persuade England to certify the suit as a class action on behalf of the approximately 114,000 state employees who pay dues to Local 1000.
Union attorney Jeffrey Demain agreed in court Friday that his client will refund money already withheld from the paychecks of the eight nonunion employees and will stop taking the special assessment out of their checks.
Other than those eight, the union is free to levy the assessment on union members and nonmembers alike.
This is exactly why Prop 75 is on the ballot and exactly why it will pass - especially with a lot of public employee union members (and non-members) voting FOR it.
But of course, expect to see a lawsuit filed by the unions to have Prop 75 over-turned on November 9th that claims the proposition was voted on 'improperly' or some crap like that.....it's what happens almost every time that a proposition is passed by a majority of Californians voting YES on it only to be 'over-turned' in the courts by judges that fall for the plaintiffs whiny-ass excuses.
Just wait for it.
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