Re: [Marxism] MTA threatens to eliminate check-off

["rrubinelli" <rrubinelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Disagree.  This is, and has been in the past, a management attempt to
starve the union of funds necessary to perform the most basic tasks of
representation.  This is nothing but the "right to work" law in a single
workplace.

You think management is going to allow union reps to go individual on
the "shop floor," at the workplace, and collect dues?  No way.

rr
----- Original Message -----
From: "David McDonald" <dbmcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Activists and scholars in Marxist tradition"
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Sent: Saturday, January 28, 2006 10:22 AM
Subject: RE: [Marxism] MTA threatens to eliminate check-off


> You have to have a lot of people, shop by shop, who collect the dues.
The
> point made in the SWP, I believe in one of Farrell Dobb's books, was
that
> such a practice put union officials, even shop stewards, immediately
in the
> firing line of their co-workers. Why should I pay my dues this month?
What
> have you done for me? I'm for it, myself. It would get a lot of union
people
> talking to other union people. So it takes a lot of time. I don't
care.
>
> Plus at 30,000 the TWA is not really that gigantic.
>
> Louis Proyect:
>
>  However, I can't imagine how in the world a huge union like the TWA
could
> really collect dues in any other way. Bureaucratic inertia would seem
to be
> a function of deeper structural/political issues.
> >
> > NY Times, January 28, 2006
> > Transit Union Fights Effort to Restrict Dues Collection
> > By SEWELL CHAN
> >
> >
>
>
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