Union members within California state government to include those in counties, cities, and union school teachers, medical, all firefighters and law enforcement must not ever take their unions and benefits for granted. Your worst enemy, besides all the GOP union busters, is apathy and not knowing your union/labor history. I have been working with California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection union members who do not support their own union. In fact, I cannot even get a retired or working rep to come to our Local Labor Council meetings once a month, nor, for that matter, any city union members, and some of the county members periodically at best. This apathy demonstrates that these workers are oblivious to how they came to earn their benefits and think the benefits would remain if the union was disbanded. This ignorance is astounding. Yes, California at this time is mostly Democratic and still has lots of unions, but the members are not involved in keeping their unions strong b...
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