{"id":2819,"date":"2011-03-27T18:21:32","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T18:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2011-03-27T18:21:32","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T18:21:32","slug":"giving_union_members_control_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2819","title":{"rendered":"Giving Union Members Control Of Their Union Dues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/politics\/fl-bill-bans-automatic-union-dues-20110325,0,1209569.story\">Orlando Sentinel<\/a>&nbsp;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.<\/p>\n<p>The bill makes perfect sense to me&#8211;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.&nbsp; The article points out that Florida is a &#8216;right to work&#8217; state, which means that workers are not required to join a union.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The bill allows union members to have more control of how their union dues are spent.&nbsp; That&#8217;s a good thing.&nbsp; Union leaders need to be held accountable as to how they handle union members&#8217; money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the Orlando Sentinel&nbsp;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2819\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}