It seems like every couple of weeks we hear of all the wonderful things WINS is doing for us in conjunction with DPA or other state departments. You need to know what is really going on.
Membership comprises about ten percent of the total state employee population (just over 3,000), but they are now controlling your future. A small group of WINS members in Pueblo have now voted on a 12-hour workday for all correction officers. They told those who opposed this action, “If you want to have any voice about your job, you must become a member of WINS.”
WINS has now taken your voice from you…not enhanced it! A group of disgruntled employees now control you. You have no say, anymore, in what happens to your life as a state employee. It has been taken from you because 25% of your fellows voted WINS as our “partnership” 18 months ago, yet less than half of that number now run your work life.
Colorado Loses took a recent poll. Of the 504 who answered the question about membership, 9.9% stated they were members. However, 18.5% stated they were favorable of WINS and 31.2% said they favor having a union. When asked if they would vote for WINS in the future, 65.1% said NO!
ColoradoWINS is nothing more than an arm of SEIU (Service Employees International Union) the single, largest union in the country. SEIU has convinced a few naive coworkers that if they provide one percent (1%) of their gross wages, SEIU, under the guise of WINS, will get them better healthcare, higher wages, and, somehow, make their lives better.
As part of the WINS’s charter, they will push beyond the governor’s executive order and ask the General Assembly to make their existence law. There is a very good chance this will happen before May 2010. It will require ALL state employees, who are not members, to pay a maintenance fee. That fee could be from ¼% to ½% of your gross pay. This could bring between $7,000,000 and $13,000,000 to their coffers. Why does WINS need that much money? Where will it go? Take a wild guess.
How do I know this? It happened in Maine. The state employee union forced all non-members to pay a maintenance fee. It is a payment to the union for services provided to non-members by their actions. You do the math…take .5% of your gross pay and give it to someone to make your decisions for you. If you think they can’t do that – the US Supreme court said they could.