Red Warrior's Journal: Brain cramp

It would appear that Washington has a new state motto: SayWA. Oh, and it took 18 months to come up with this gem. Wadda know, "An Army of one doesn't sound quite as stupid in comparison, does it?. Sigh.

In other local news, it turns out that even when a public employee chooses to pay a "representation fee"[1], their dues can still "legally" be used in violation of the law[2]. 'Cuz the State supreme court just decided the law is unconstitutional, because it violates the union's right to use other's money as it sees fit.

And to add insult to injury, the court determined that the voter initiative that required political expendatures of shop fee employees be "affirmatively authorized" by the employee didn't intent to actually require that such expenses be affirmatively authorized. What the voters REALLY meant was: "the principal thrust of I-134 was to protect the integrity of the election process from the perception that elected officials are improperly influenced by monetary contributions"...

Thomas Jefferson was correct then, and he's correct now:
That to compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical.

Feh.

THIS was funny, however.

[1]AKA "shop fee". The choose not to join the union, and instead pay that percentage of union dues which the union uses for collective barganing purposes.
[2] By paying the representation fee, you are specifically NOT required to fund the union's political activity under RCW 42.17.260.

heh

[stoolpigeon]

it is interesting that wa is not a right to work state. az is and so that is what i'm used to. join the union/don't join the union- doesn't matter. you still get the same benefits. but a lot of people still join the union (i did) because they are helpful. but the one thing i never did like was that part of my dues went to endorse political candidates that i was against. but i still felt like the positives outweighed the negatives.

i was a member of the United Food and Commercial Workers union f