Loads of American workers are dropping out of unions – Now liberals have a new plan to save left's cash cow

[Leroy N. Soetoro]

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/loads-of-american-workers-are-dropping-
out-of-unions-now-liberals-have-a-new-plan-to-save-lefts-cash-cow

Government labor unions are losing dues-paying members at an unprecedented
rate, which is good news for workers and bad news for liberal coffers. The
mass exodus is forcing leaders on the left to address a serious problem:
Their decades of financial backing from fat cat union bosses may be coming
to an end.

Thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark right-to-work ruling last June
(Janus v. AFSCME) and the Freedom Foundation’s efforts to inform public
employees of the court’s decision, more than 40,000 union members on the
West Coast have defected during the past six months alone. Now that
government workers have a choice to leave their unions, they are fleeing
in droves.

The sharp decline in membership probably explains why union leaders have
hatched a scheme in Oregon that they hope will become a playbook for the
rest of the nation.

Oregon House Bill 2643, authored by Rep. Paul Holvey, D-Eugene, and
scheduled to be introduced during the current legislative session, is a
shot across the bow of Janus, which banned the so-called “agency” fees
that government employees who successfully opted-out of full union
participation were still required to pay in lieu of dues.

The measure would replace Oregon’s existing agency fee laws by creating a
slush fund from which state and local government would pay the equivalent
of each employee’s monthly dues directly to the union.

While Janus stops governments from requiring employees to make payments to
unions out of their own pockets, HB-2643 proponents insist it doesn’t
prevent state and local governments from supporting unions instead.

Rather than paying a state employee a salary of $50,000, for example, from
which $1,000 in agency fees would be deducted, the bill proposes to simply
alter the arrangement on paper so that the employee’s revised salary is
$49,000, with the state diverting the remaining $1,000 to the union
itself.

Rather than paying a state employee a salary of $50,000, for example, from
which $1,000 in agency fees would be deducted, the bill proposes to simply
alter the arrangement on paper so that the employee’s revised salary is
$49,000, with the state diverting the remaining $1,000 to the union
itself.

This underhanded scheme allows unions to keep lining their pockets and
writing checks at liberal fundraisers.

The concept can trace its roots back to at least 2015, when a pair of
leftist law professors – correctly anticipating an anti-union outcome in
Janus – authored a law review article that hypothesized a radical
restructuring of government/union relationships in order to exploit a
perceived loophole in the ruling.

Union leaders and the leftist politicians they corrupt with someone else’s
dues money are hopeful that this legislative monster currently on the
drawing board in Oregon can be reanimated in other states too.

Their theory, however, has any number of legal and logical holes in it.

For starters, it envisions an impossibly unworkable arrangement in which
the government represents both labor and management in collective
bargaining negotiations – a prospect that makes even some union officials
queasy.

More fundamentally, though, it completely disregards the court’s clear
intent in Janus.

The whole point of Janus was to safeguard the right of government
employees to decide for themselves which political causes and candidates
to support – if any – with their hard-earned dollars. HB-2643 is a brazen
attempt to seize that right and hand it back to a greedy, unscrupulous
special interest.

The decline of unions may seem like the natural progression of American
history, but it has real political consequences, especially going into
2020. In Oregon, we’re seeing a desperate attempt to save the left’s cash
cow. And if their scheme flies in Oregon, you can bet your life your state
will be next.


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