Union dues no longer deducted from Air Force civilian employee checks

[James48]

Source: Dayton Daily News

Union dues are no longer being deducted from Air Force civilian employee paychecks, according to an email from a comptroller squadron at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

“Barring payroll dues deduction for federal employees is having a tremendous impact on our union and all other federal unions,” said Tim Kauffman, a spokesman for the American Federation of Government Employees, or AFGE, which represents about 820,000 federal government workers across the United States.

The 88th Comptroller Squadron received a message from the Air Force Installation and Mission Support Center Wednesday that union dues paycheck deductions were cancelled effective March 22, per a presidential executive order, according to an email on the subject shared with the Dayton Daily News.

“We haven’t been able to do a comprehensive review but if employees in your organization were having voluntary union dues deducted from their paychecks, it appears that those union dues deductions were cancelled,” Ross White, supervisor of the Civilian Pay Section at the 88th Comptroller Squadron, wrote in the email.

Read more: https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/union-dues-no-longer-deducted-from-air-force-civilian-employee-checks/JD7JK7NP7VHANAM2WQAJU3AUZQ/

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He’s doing everything he can to destroy federal employee Unions.

[SunSeeker]

1. Aren't union dues deduction procedures agreed upon through collective bargaining agreements?

How can an Executive Order subvert a collective bargaining agreement?

Seems like this will end up in court, like all Trump’s EOs.

[magicarpet]

2. Quietly decimating federal workers unions,...

By denying access to union dues to keep the unions operational.

Next up,... privatize the TSA at the airports. As a backdoor way to break and dissolve that worker's union.

[MichMan]

3. They will just need to set up automatic monthly bill pay with their members

It may take a little while to get it set up, but many people already do that every month for bills.

Since Ohio is not a RTW state, they really have no choice if they want to keep their jobs.

[gab13by13]

5. The problem with that is that not every employee

will choose to have his/her dues deducted. Having the employer deduct union dues is called a union shop contract, not deducting the dues would be a violation of the contract.

[MichMan]

7. Is there a real concern that many just won't pay ?

Aren't they risking losing their jobs if they aren't in good standing with the union?

[gab13by13]

4. The deduction of union dues should be stated in the contract.

[James48]

6. It IS

They are ignoring contracts.