On Friday, the Orlando Sentinel posted an article stating that the Florida House passed a bill that will ban automatic deduction of union dues from a government paycheck and will require that union members sign off on the use of their dues for political purposes.

The bill makes perfect sense to me–the unions need to be responsible for collecting their own dues and the unions need to respect the wishes of their members in making political donations.  The article points out that Florida is a ‘right to work’ state, which means that workers are not required to join a union. 

The article reports:

“The Senate version of the bill, sponsored by Sen. John Thrasher, R-St. Augustine, has one more committee stop before it makes it to the floor.”

The bill allows union members to have more control of how their union dues are spent.  That’s a good thing.  Union leaders need to be held accountable as to how they handle union members’ money.