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Or, to be precise, with this quotation? Two successive titles - successive, mind you - on the conservative news service Townhall.com:

Mike Shedlock:
U.S. Local Governments Cut Payrolls to Lowest Level Since 2006

Chris Edwards:
Plunder! How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives, and Bankrupting the Nation

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Still fails. I imagine union dues will be a fixed dollar amount or a percentage of income, I don't know which. In the first case a raise accrues entirely to the employee, in the second case it accrues largely to the employee. In neither case can the union be said to be plundering the treasury without benefit to its members.