From what I remember from pops, last time you guys had a negotiation, you were offered a hair less than 10, wanted 11, and held out…Budget crisis made a turn for the worse, and you were left with a COLA… YEA CTA!

Your union representation sucks Hugo. Like it in theory or not, you’re represented by amatures!

Existing law,
subject to certain limitations, provides that organizational security
is within the scope of representation and defines “organizational
security” in accordance with those rights. Existing law provides
that an organizational security arrangement, to be effective, must be
agreed upon by both parties to the agreement, and authorizes the
public employer, when the issue is being negotiated, to require that
the organizational security arrangement be severed from the remainder
of the proposed agreement and cause that arrangement to be voted
upon separately by all members in the appropriate negotiating unit.
This bill would delete those provisions pertaining to the
effectiveness of the organizational security arrangement. The bill
would instead require public school employees who are in a unit for
which an exclusive representative has been selected to be required,
as a condition of continued employment, either to join the recognized
employee organization or to pay the organization a fair share
service fee, and would make conforming changes in related provisions.

Translation: unions have even more rights than they did before, and both the public institutions and the individual employees the unions “represent” have even less.

Lovely.

I did eventually join… but I do dislike CTA always telling me who I should vote for in elections… and stuffing liberal political agendas down my throat.