"HeyBub" wrote in message
m...

Here's an exercise for you. Put some money in one of your pants
pockets. Now move it to another pocket. Question: is it still your
money, or not?
Now here comes the tricky part. If union members pay dues to a union,
and the union uses those dues to pay for buses so union members can
go to a political rally, whose money paid for the buses? Hint:
remember those pants pockets.


Good analogy. Here's another:

You've got some money in one of your pants pockets. A hand reaches in,
takes some of your money, and uses it for purposes of which you
disapprove, is it still your money?

Did you get your say during the election for officers of the organization
(which you joined of your own free will) that is spending the money? If so,
and if you'll get your say again at the next election, what are you crying
about? Because actually the only hand reaching into your pocket is yours,
you chose to pay dues to an organization that got you better pay, working
conditions and so on, and you get to vote on who runs that organization, so
it's not like somebody you don’t know is picking your pocket.

Now here's the tricky part: If the union forcibly takes your money,

They don't. If you don't like the pay offered by Company X, you don't have
to work there, right? And if Company Y is a union shop and you don't want
to pay union dues to get the higher pay negotiated by the union--same as
above--you don't have to work there. There is no "forcibly" unless you can
document contemporary union press gangs roaming the streets signing up
members and extracting dues at pistol point.

uses it for busses, free beer, and barbecue, do you have a right to
complain without being beaten?

The same right you have not to be beaten by company goons trying to keep you
from signing a union card (although lately they prefer lawyers to goons,
less bad publicity).