Its quite east to resign. Just visit the NLRB website for more info.
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From a dues-paying member who declares himself as a conservative on most usually-covered topics...
The way that VZ has been treating us over the past couple of years with the union in place makes me believe that we'd become instantly expendable without one...and I'm someone who has gone head-to-head with various union reps over the past 12-13 years on a variety of issues...
So, no, I'll keep on paying my dues for the time being. Everyone else is free to make their own decisions.
Many union employees do want to opt out of union membership. Another NEFW survey found over a quarter of those in union households would leave their union if they could without getting penalized for it.
Astonishingly, they already can but don't know it. In right-to-work states, workers can opt out entirely of union membership and all union dues.
In non-right-to-work states, employees can resign from union membership, become agency fee payers and receive a rebate for the union's political spending. Union members with religious objections to their union's activities - like the unions that gave hundreds of thousands in dues to America's largest abortion provider - can have their entire dues redirected to a non-objectionable charity instead.
Workers' ignorance of their legal rights has inflated organized labor's balance sheets. Polls also show most union members think they receive too little value for the dues they pay. Many pay up anyway because they think they have no choice. No other private organization in the country can collect literally billions from individuals who don't know they can say no.
A major reason union members don't know they can leave is their employers automatically deduct union dues from their paychecks. How do you stop something that looks as automatic as your Social Security deductions?
This perception enables union officers to run their unions according to their own preferences instead of catering to their members' desires.
For example, most major unions spend their members' dues heavily on political activities. Last year the AFL-CIO national headquarters spent a fifth of its $200 million budget on politics and lobbying. Almost all that money went to support left-wing politicians and causes.
However, many union members are conservatives or independents. Even many left-leaning members don't want to give their money to politicians. Polls also show three-fifths of union members consider their union's political spending wasteful.
Union officers do it anyway. They feel much less pressure to serve their customers than Wal-Mart and other businesses do. When your customers don't know they can leave, why cater to their needs?
That is, unless the groups participating in National Employee Freedom Week help the two-fifths of currently uninformed union members understand they have the ability to opt out of union membership.