Maida Rosenstein, president of Local 2110, said an agency shop was needed to strengthen a historically weak union.
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However, Burton spokesman Dave Sebeck said Burton is " a longtime believer in agency shop and fair share representation ."
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But Batterman asserted that the agency shop demands were prolonging the strike and were designed largely to increase the union leaders'power.
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Dianne Foster, George Graham and Anne Lindl organized a petition drive to ask for a vote on the agency shop provision.
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But when the votes were counted recently, they'd fallen short; 171 teachers voted to eliminate the agency shop, 232 to keep it.
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In the United States, the fee paid by non-union members under the agency shop is known as the " agency fee ."
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Susan Meisenhelder, president-elect of the California Faculty Association and an English professor at California State University, San Bernardino, compared agency shop to taxation.
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Even the establishment of an agency shop, in which non-union employees pay a percentage of dues, would be an improvement, the unions said.
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In a labor union, free riding occurs if an employee pays no union dues or agency shop fees, but benefits from union representation.
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While agency shops do not represent all that serious an infringement of freedom of association, it is clear that the closed-shop agreement does.
