Quit the union and use that cash for Christmas shopping! [View all]

From a letter sent to state workers by Mailee Smith, who is the Illinois Policy Institute’s policy staff attorney.


(full contents of the PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1utBDvF5koN4_4srmzN4MnfMaD5YlKUHX/view )


The ol’ self-interest angle.

* From AFSCME…

The mailer (pictured) tries to trick AFSCME members into quitting their union as a way to put “money into your pocket this Christmas”. Of course, what the IPI and Rauner really want is to dupe workers into leaving the union as a way to drain AFSCME’s resources and prevent us from standing together against Rauner and the IPI’s destructive anti-worker agenda.

This is just the latest in a series of ploys by IPI and their ilk who brought the anti-union Janus case, sent other phony mailers and even stole the identity of AFSCME local union presidents, activists and retirees in a desperate bid for legitimacy.

The tricks aren’t working on union members here or elsewhere. In Illinois and across the country, AFSCME members are seeing through the IPI lies — and union ranks are actually growing in the wake of the Janus case as former fee-payers sign up and become dues-paying members.

https://capitolfax.com/2018/12/19/quit-the-union-and-use-that-cash-for-christmas-shopping/