Workers tells it like it is - Lege is anti-worker

This letter to the editor printed in the Springfield News Leaders is short and right on point.

Paycheck protection bill: Measure hurts unions, working families
 Mar 25, 2013  
 
Written by
Audra Dickens
Fair Grove

As a public employee, I’m appalled at our state Senate and House for passing a so-called paycheck protection bill.

It’s an unnecessary bill, a waste of taxpayers’ money, and nothing more than an attack on unions and working families.

The paycheck deception bill aims to strip away public sector workers’ right to choose whether or not to have union dues automatically deducted from their paychecks, and it would infringe on these workers’ freedom of speech by making contributing to a political fund more difficult.

Why are our legislators more interested in taking away union members’ rights than in actually improving Missouri’s economy? Why are they trying to burden workers and undermine unions instead of creating jobs and improving our economy?

Missouri’s legislative leaders should be working to improve schools, make our communities safer and increase economic opportunity. Instead, they’re carrying out a corporate agenda that hurts our middle class and puts working families at risk.