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KansDem

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7. My wife experienced a similar situation where she works...
Fri Mar 20, 2015, 05:43 AM
Mar 2015

She works at a community college in Kansas. Several years ago, in her department all but two of her colleagues were members of the KNEA. These two non-members were on-the-record as "anti-union." But when the union negotiated raises and better working conditions for its members, guess who was at the head of the line, crying "Gimme!"? Although non-members, they still enjoyed Union representation without paying the dues. These two right-to-workers have long since moved on, but it still irks us how they could bad-mouth the union but still indulge in its benefits.

...conservative Reagan devotees who opposed unions because "everyone needs to stand on their own two feet" Describes them to a T!

In our house, they weren't known as "Free Riders;" they were referred to as "The Parasites."

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