harley30344
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I don’t think he spun it at all. He simply explained what 95% of the readers, including casual and uninformed observers, picked up on immediately. The dues are roughly 1.5% period. They do not change to 3.0% in year two and 4.5% in year three, etc.
Therefore, future pay raises are not reduced by dues, any more than they would be by taxes and social security.
If Alaska82’s guest wants to dazzle us with creative math, he needs to stop after year one.
your right--my bad! I do understand that the dues are fixed (for now) at roughly 1.5% (I'll take your word on that). I also understand whay BW was saying--I think---that if you get a 3.5% pay raise you are only giving an ADDITIONAL 1.5% of that 3.5% each year which is insignificant--but I thought the point the gentleman was trying to get across was that you gave up the 1.5% plus the 1.5% times the 3.5% thus contributing to the union 1.5%+. If a person wants a union that amount is really trivial, but if they don't it is just salt in the wound.