Tag: agency fees

Hundreds of state employees quit union after Janus

November 1, 2019

by Skip

(And at least one was not forced to join one – ME!) (reformatted, emphasis mine) ******** Last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Janus v. AFCSME triggered a 5.9% reduction in New Hampshire state employee union membership, state payroll data obtained by the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy show. The sudden drop reversed a … Read more

This State Takes the Janus Ruling and Free Speech Rights Seriously

September 29, 2019

by Steve MacDonald

Janus vs. AFSCME made it illegal for unions to take fees without consent. Many states responded by assuming consent or the implementation of opt-out programs. Alaska has gone and done this right.

J Bartlett: Janus Ruling Saves NH State Employees 1 Million A Year

September 26, 2018July 31, 2018

by Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire’s Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy Reports that based on a Right to Know request the annual calculated savings for State Employees forced to pay agency fees (Post Janus) is over one million dollars.

The state collected $37,913.60 per paycheck from these 2,161 non-union employees, diverting an annual total of $1,012,055.83 from their paychecks to the State Employees Association and the Teamsters.

Employees never saw this money. It was given directly to the unions, even though these employees opted not to become union members.

I’m looking for a word…

Janus vs. AFSCME – a personal take

September 26, 2018June 27, 2018

by Skip

UPDATE: As the Supreme court just decided for Janus and against the unions, this post is appropriate. Best news? SCOTUS rules that public sector union MUST be opt-in for payments. Essentially, this returns freedom to individuals over the unions; no more paycheck protection for unions.

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“Live Free or Die” – that’s our state motto and unlike many on the Left that find that absolutely abhorrent, it’s one of the reasons why I’ve stayed in the Granite State for over three decades (yep, came for a job, stayed for the motto). The rest of the motto is not one that is repeated too often, that saying from General John Stark to his former soldiers: “Death is not the worst of all evils“. The Progressives here shudder every time it is stated.

For them, life is not to be free in the traditional sense of the word. Freedom is the Collective. Freedom is belonging to such a collective. It also isn’t about remembering history because much of their philosophy regresses back to the mistakes and catastrophes of the 20th and 19th Centuries when Collectivism tried to overwhelm that most radical of American ideals – the idea that the Individual is sovereign and happens to have a government instead of what most of the world’s history and actions show to be the opposite – a country with subjects.