EDUCATE YOURSELF: - Recognize that public sector unions are different from trade unions. Trade unions exist to help employees share in the profits they have helped to create. Public employees don't create profits. They accept taxpayer money for delivering services. Their salaries should be set by the legislature, based on the value of those services to the taxpayers.
- Understand the huge conflict of interest that public sector unions are creating in Washington State government -- using your tax dollars. The Governor appointed the Labor Relations Office which, at her bidding, negotiates the contracts with the public sector unions who, in turn contribute large amounts of money to her campaign (AND, in this election year, have been funding attack ads against her opponent for re-election).
- The "game plan" to coerce state employees began with Democrat-controlled legislature passing a series of bills that awarded special exemptions and privileges to public sector unions. The result is that the public sector unions have no accountability, have been able to take in eight times as much money as they did before, and are currently moving to further deny state employees any voice in whether they wish to be represented or not. Those legislators who have been supportive in making this happen are now sharing in the windfall.
- Go to the WFSE, WPEA and SEIU web sites. Find who they support and vote the opposite.