Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Union Bullying Members is Shedding Them: Over 500 People Leave Operating Engineers

Union Bullying Members is Shedding Them: Over 500 People Leave Operating Engineers [Michigan Capitol Confidential]:
"An official from a Michigan union that bullied members who opted out under the state's right-to-work law by printing their names in its online newsletter is now saying they have had to abandon local public school bargaining units for lack of support.
In its winter 2013 newsletter, Operating Engineers Local 324 used the derogatory term “freeloaders” to identify 19 members who had opted out of the union under the right-to-work law.
At that time, Business Manager Doug Stockwell said the union had “weathered the storm” with right-to-work.
Michigan Capitol Confidential broke that story and it went on to receive national media attention.
By the summer of 2014, that list of “freeloaders” had grown to 503 members. 
And Stockwell’s tone had changed.
Now, the union official talked about “walking away” from public school bargaining units that simply no longer wanted to support their union."

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