Judge: Missouri must collect union dues from prison workers
Source: AP
ST. LOUIS (AP) A judge has ordered Missouri to begin collecting union dues from prison workers, finding that an attempt by Gov. Mike Parsons administration to break the union is illegal.
In a scathing, 43-page decision, Circuit Judge Jon Beetem said it was unconstitutional, arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable that the state had stopped collecting the dues from members of the Missouri Corrections Officer Association, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Wednesday.
It happened in 2019 as the states Office of Administration and the labor union were negotiating a new contract. The state argued at the time that the workers were no longer in a union since the contract had expired.
The move left the association with a massive funding shortfall, resulting in the closure of its headquarters, the loss of two staff and an end to the payout of hardship benefits to members.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/business-missouri-labor-unions-ed02f56f1a9adbc977cd58187feac532
MichMan
(11,915 posts)madville
(7,410 posts)Imagine if social security said people had to send in payment on their own instead of it being collected and paid in by their employer.
MichMan
(11,915 posts)Social Security is a poor example since the employer is responsible for half of it and taxes are not owed on FICA payments.
Did they try and bill people and they just wouldn't pay?
madville
(7,410 posts)Apparently those corrections officers didn't think their union dues were important enough to pay on their own when not forced to do so through payroll deduction.
Omaha Steve
(99,618 posts)Public employees are not covered by the NLRB. State law forbids several states from even having a public union.
OS
Smackdown2019
(1,186 posts)If that had happened contracts never would settle between the employer and employees, thus financially ruin unions. The good faith on negotiations would be a joke on the employer side.
Second, financial dealings between unions and employees are a internal matter amongst themselves, employer has no standings on that.
Some unions do not have their dues withhold from paychecks, most unions do.
myohmy2
(3,162 posts)...there is no free lunch...
...you benefit from Union, you pay for Union and the state shouldn't steal Union money...
...go steal some corporate money...
...
MichMan
(11,915 posts)Apparently, the union members decided at that point they weren't going to pay them any longer