Agency fees are paid for fair representation. Non fee paying nonmembers should be on their own to negotiate their individual terms and conditions of work with management's anti-labor lawyers. Union contract provisions should not apply to nonmembers who don't pay for representation. Let's see how fast they join when collective bargaining agreements turn out way better than the individual contracts they can obtain by swimming with the sharks themselves.

Before I used to squishily want to keep everyone together and hope non-members would come around, but seeing that it has come to this, and the anti-union people in unions seem perfectly happy with it, yes, they should get out of our boat.

These freeloaders want all the benefits of good union jobs, without having to support the union that obtains those benefits for them.

organizing down in Orange county. Hostile adjuncts saying they'd pay to get out of the union?? Who are these people? It's like self-loathing.

What's to stop employers from be at least as generous with non-union workers long enough to erode support and get the union decertified? I tend to side with people who frame this as a freedom of contract issue. The standard response to someone objecting to an employer's conditions is to go look for work somewhere else. I don't see why that shouldn't apply to conditions negotiated by employees, too. I.e., if you don't want to join a union, find work in a non-union shop.

I think my own field would be too tightfisted to try that kind of head fake, but I could be wrong. With public sector employees our one advantage is knowing that our bosses aren't sitting on billions of reserves. But they might decide to be wily.

From my understanding, there is a labor law giving unions exclusive bargaining rights upon being recognized as a bargaining unit. Under this law, they are forced to represent all and even if you want to bargain alone you are prohibited from doing so. It would need to be repealed.

This law also prevents rival unions from coming in and poaching members by promising lower dues etc.

bargain directly with the employer when they are hired. If the pay scale and benefits are less, tough shit.

I wonder if that will change if this case succeeds.