[lbo-talk] SEIU membership

[Jim Straub]

doug-
Off the top of my head (am on the road but will check this with someone who
knows it cold sometime this wee), my understanding is that Bush changed the
way numbers and members are counted by dol, so that fair share members are
not counted (ie if yer in a non-right to work state, and your workplace has
a union contract, but you dont support the union for whatever reason and
won't belong, but there is a fairshare clause that means you pay all or some
dues regardless) anymore.  A statistical trick in the way of counting to
knock the numbers down a notch basically.

Bob Fitch supports this trick of Bush's to make the unions smaller by any
even silly means tho, judging by the fact that he constantly uses this huge
one-year imaginary decline in members to illustrate that seiu is in fact not
succeeding at organizing.  Which might explain the enthusiasm the nyt
editorial page and the center for union 'facts' have for his work and
message.

Jim
btw email me back about lunch or coffee on the 6th or 7th in ny.
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