Word: duesing
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Each side knew that it might be catching a tartar. The Big Three are among the biggest and richest employers of U.S. labor. The Auto Workers, with 609,000 dues-paying members and a $4,000,000 strike fund, are one of the biggest and scrappiest of all U.S. unions...
"[Under the checkoff system] the company has collected for the union in dues, initiation fees and special assessments a total of $7,799,924. . . .
No Man's Land. In Salt Lake City, Myron F. Oliver re-enlisted after taking a gander at the dues he would have to pay a union.
To the workers, in no mood to modify their demands for a closed shop and a dues checkoff, all this was a signal to prepare for a fight. Picket lines at each of the sprawling plant's 17 gates grew longer, thicker, more sullen. On Monday, 8,500 additional...
But the good cheer was superficial. The seizure had been caused by Ward's refusal to obey a National War Labor Board order for maintenance-of-membership and dues check-off for the C.I.O.'s United Retail Employes Union. When the U.S. Army marched in and literally carried...