Naming and Shaming: the Anti-Union Edition?

[dewline]

Well, I see no way the implementation of this particular bill can get messed up...especially if the consequences discussed with trepidation by certain Canadian senators are exactly what's planned as consequences of the bill's passage into law.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/national/Union+finances+bill+faces+mounting+opposition+Senate/8251350/story.html

What do you think?

For the non-Canadians reading this: do you have any laws like this where you live? Active and in force? Right now?

Comments

"What do you think?"

[ed-rex.livejournal.com]

That, on the surface, it's a good idea, provided that any and all organizations, spending collective money, need to do the same. Ie, corporations and governments, too.

Quite honestly, I don't see anything intrisically wrong with want to know where my union dues/tax dollars/foregone dividends are being spent.

But if it singles out unions alone? Something fishy is going on.

[millysdaughter.livejournal.com]

Working for the local school system, my salary is a matter of public record. Because they are paid by tax dollars.
Everything the government does or pays really ought to be public, and if joining the union is "required" then every dollar the union spends should be public -- they are not voluntary contributions, they are really a tax.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Which the government isn't going to see a (direct) penny of.