I'm in a right to work state. We are just above the 50% figured needed to keep from being de-certified. My plant has a higher number closer to 80%. It takes work, but it can happen.
http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_9352146By Al Lewis
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 05/22/2008 11:50:57 PM MDT
What's so great about being in the union?
Half of Colorado's United Food and Commercial Workers would stop paying union dues if they could, according to the group's local president.
In a May 1 letter to members, Ernest Duran warns that the right-to-work initiative headed for Colorado's November ballot would decimate his ranks of dues-paying members.
"If this amendment passes, we will enter all future negotiations divided," Duran wrote. "In my opinion, we will enter with less than 50 percent of the workers as union members."
If Amendment 47 passes, no one could be forced to pay union dues. Under current state law, those working at union-organized companies may have to pay union dues whether they like it or not.
Sounds like plenty of Rocky Mountain region grocery workers don't like it. In the right-to-work state of Wyoming, for example, the UFCW counts less than 40 percent of workers at companies where it has organized, Duran laments.
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