HB 1546, introduced by Rep. Goodrich and co-authored by Rep. Behning, would remove the requirement that, at a teacher’s request, schools withhold union dues from a teacher’s paycheck and would, instead, prohibit schools from withholding such dues from the paycheck. Keep in mind that, per IC 22-2-6, employers can — at an employee’s request — withhold money from a paycheck that an employee wants to send to a nonprofit, use as dues for other types of unions, purchase goods from the employer, repay an employer loan, and a number of other things. So, this prohibition on withholding union dues looks to be nothing more than mean-spirited. Oh, and “an emergency is declared for this act.” Because, of course it is.
Do the police and fire unions have the same rules applied to them, or are they exempt due to their strong support of Republicans?
Short answer: I don’t know if there are any specific rules applicable to fire & police unions. Longer answer: There’s a statutory provision that already gives teachers somewhat special treatment as compared to a generic union/employer relationship — schools are required to accommodate teacher requests to deduct union dues. With the generic statute I believe employers are permitted but not required to accommodate such deduction requests. Under this legislation, schools would be forbidden from accommodating those deductions.
Before I retired, ISTA automatically pulled my monthly dues split to twice a month. I don’t know if they still do that but it worked well. A lot of young teachers could afford the smaller amount pulled twice instead of a bigger once a month pull. No one in the district office knew who was a member of the association either.
The people in the district office really don’t give 2 craps about who is the union.
Obviously if teachers unions just donated to the GOP, they wouldn’t be targeted. Like Fire Fighters and Police.
My youngest son Steven left today to go his class at UINDY. . He has a professor who pre-records his lectures and posts them on zoom and has no home work. Just show up on zoom for the two zoom tests. Talked to two of his friends at IUPUI and the same thing happening there.
But the Republicans are to busy picking on grade school and high school teachers. Maybe our legislature could threaten to with hold state funding for colleges unless the administration come up with some guidelines to make their professors have some accountability for the over priced classes they are barely teaching due to covid.