06-06-2012, 12:39 PM
Ted King wrote:
[quote=Avenger]
AFSCME membership has gone from 62,000 to 28,000 in just one year. Looks like the membership just couldn't wait to get out. MSNBC is in full mourning.
If a majority of AFSCME members in Wisconsin hadn't wanted a union they could have gotten out of it by voting to get rid of it long before the last couple of years. As someone pointed out in another thread (I think), most likely the biggest reason for the large exodus is that after Walker and the other Republicans in Wisconsin changed the rules for public unions so drastically, the membership looked at what the union could do for them and saw that it was basically not much of anything anymore with those new rules so there wasn't much point in staying in it.
I am not up to speed on all that changed. Didn't the new rules stop requiring union membership?