"Here's how it works: Milwaukee County officials approved a living wage requirement for local government contractors to pay at least $11.33 per hour. SEIU's Wisconsin Jobs Now campaign was the main backer of the requirement.
But the new law includes a convenient way for contractors to avoid having to pay the living wage — they can agree to force their employees to join SEIU.
Pay up or else.
In other words, SEIU's message is this:
You can pay us this way or you can pay us that way, but the bottom line here is you are going to pay.
The union doesn't care which way you go.
If a contractor opts to pay the living wage, the union can claim credit, thus strengthening its appeal to workers to join voluntarily.
Or the contractor can get off the hook by shifting the burden to employees who then have to pay the SEIU for the privilege of holding a job.
Expect to see this approach more frequently across the country as unions cast about for ways to reverse the membership decline that has been evident for years."
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