Imagine this: A major California company announces to its employees that it plans to automatically deduct money from employees' salaries every month and use the funds to support candidates and ...

This question has already been loudly answered -- by California voters and by the U.S. Supreme Court. Voters defeated Proposition 75 in 2005, just like its twin Proposition 226 in 1998. Voters ...

One group of non-members says the SEIU failed to provide very specific notice and accounting information when they used non-members' dues money for political purposes.

The fight over Proposition 75, which would require members of California public employee unions to give permission before their dues are spent for political purposes, is a bare knuckle battle for ...

An advocacy group has filed a lawsuit seeking to stop teachers unions in California from using member dues for political purposes unless individual instructors provide their permission. The effort ...

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Conversely, in 27 states, employees are forced to be dues-paying members of a union in order to keep their jobs with no direct control over which candidates receive union support." ...

Union dues cannot be used for political work. Union dues and service fees are strictly for use in covering administration costs for running the union.

Big labor groups have sent over $1 billion to left-leaning groups since the start of the decade without prior approval from the unions' members, according to eye-opening new research.

With unemployment at 8.3 percent nationally - 12 percent in Nevada - many businesses and individuals are tightening their belts and doing more with less.

On January 10 the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two consolidated cases on ways that teacher unions spend their dues. ... who choose not to be union members for political activity without ...

Political party secretaries general say that while it would be ideal to collect membership dues more fully and frequently, it is not a significant issue. Despite years of talk about the low rate of ...