Government Unions Hit Hard

Who was it said, "Elections have consequences"?

• The coalition of national unions most affected by the Illinois case Janus v. AFSCME Council 31 ruling is predicting an immediate revenue loss as governments stop collecting “fair share” or “agency” fees from non-union employees. “But not the kind of draconian existential threat that the right wing attempted to do when they started this fight,” says Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.
  
  On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that government workers who choose not to join unions cannot be compelled to pay “fair share” dues.

What we'd like to see is an itemized bill, so that if the police labor organizations ever attempt to donate to Rahm or Madigan or Pritzker or another Daley or any other asshole who begs for our endorsements/votes and then screw us, our pensions, supports insane work rules, etc., then we can reduce their ability to hand over our money in our name.

We write checks to assorted conservative causes and politicians. Then the FOP sends Madigan a check every year.

Why? We don't like the Madigans. They're assholes, both of them. Under a previous regime, the FOP was "encouraged" to contribute to Lisa, not so that she would do our bidding, but so that Mike wouldn't work actively against us, as if neutrality on pension issues was a good thing. We needed an advocate and we got another bloated political pension for a Machine politico. We earn our money and it's high time those utilizing it earned it, too, by representing OUR interests.