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Testimony on Paycheck Protection submitted to Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee and Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee (pdf)
There can be no doubt about the power of California’s public-employee unions. The expensive months-long media campaign waged by these unions against the paycheck protection initiative is itself a grim testimony to the unions’ ability to extort hard-earned dollars from the salaries of their members in the form of forced union dues.
Paycheck protection rightly focuses attention on both the fundamental issue of fairness to individual union members and the size of union political treasuries. This much-needed, fair, and urgent measure would give union members the ability to prevent their dues money from being spent on political purposes with which they disagree. In short, paycheck protection does not simply protect paychecks: it protects the individual right of free speech that is the birthright of every American.
There can be no doubt about the power of California’s public-employee unions. The expensive months-long media campaign waged by these unions against the paycheck protection initiative is itself a grim testimony to the unions’ ability to extort hard-earned dollars from the salaries of their members in the form of forced union dues. 
