I am an SEIU member. No choice in the matter. We operate under the "fair share" plan where you may pay extra to gain voting rights, so I joined. This latest anti gun ploy is an embarrassment that continues to reflect their ineffective and deluded representation. I routinely hear about people all over the country getting a better deal than we get and things are much worse in Illinois with our missing budget and royally boned retirement system. It's worse every year. We were just warned of a massive twofold price increase for health care after years of steady increases with little to no wage improvements. They roll over for AFSCME to negotiate our most important benefits and say they're powerless to help when results are poor. All I've seen them do in my decade as a member is to lobby for politicians I don't support, get them elected, and then complain when their chosen one causes healthcare and retirement benefits to degrade, while failing to negotiate a contract that even comes close to compensating for the it all.
They have probably spent more money filling buses with protestors than they ever did working to improve my situation locally. I can't prove that we would be better off without them but they could certainly be doing a better job. Using my dues to help them protest against firearms has jack spit to do with anything but apparently they have nothing better to do. They will be hearing about it.
