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The Empower Employees Act: An End to Automatic Dues Collection by Public Sector UnionsRep. Tim Scott (R-SC) has introduced the Empower Employees Act, a bill that would stop labor unions from automatically deducting union dues from federal government employees’ paychecks.
As Rep. Scott noted in his “Dear Colleague” letter, the legislation will lead to a decrease in dues paying members of public sector unions. Rep. Scott wrote, “Time and again, when the automatic deduction of union dues has been stopped, there have been dramatic decreases in the amount of dues collected.”
Rep. Scott went on to further note two prominent moments when unions were barred from automatically collecting dues. When Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels ended the automatic collection of dues in 2005, dues paying membership dropped off by roughly 90 percent. Clearly, once the workers were free of the paycheck shanghai that was occurring, they chose to spend their money elsewhere rather than pay the union.
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