Marine Says He Faces Termination for Refusing to Pay Teacher's Union Fee

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Fox News:

A retired U.S. Marine who runs a Massachusetts high school's ROTC program says he faces termination if he doesn't pay a $500 union fee by next week, a levy he refuses to pay because he already receives medical and dental benefits from the military.

Maj. Stephen Godin, senior naval science instructor at the Naval Junior ROTC Unit at North High School in Worcester, Mass., told FoxNews.com he has been teaching for the Educational Association for Worcester for 15 years -- including 14 at North High School -- without having to join the union or pay an "agency fee" toward the cost of collective bargaining.

"I just want to save my job here," the 58-year-old father of two said. "I've been doing this for 15 years. Nobody has ever told me to join the union or be terminated."

Godin, who earns roughly $75,000 a year, said he has asked for arbitration no fewer than five times, but has not received a response from the teacher's union. He said he received a letter last month from Worcester Public School officials indicating he will be fired on June 15 if he fails to pay the agency fee.

"It's really nothing," Godin said of the amount. "It's the principal of the matter. I think they're trying to extort money from me. They do nothing for me."

Several messages seeking comment from officials at Education Association of Worcester and North High School, including Principal Matthew Morse, were not returned on Tuesday.
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Sounds like certain union officials are in need of a Code Red...

[NCTexan]

UNION THUGS IN ACTION!

[Pepper]

Gee, this won't have a pretty ending

 

 

 

 

 

for the union, that is.

Union HQ will be flooded with email and protest letters.

They'll fold like a cheap suit.

Score one for the Marine. Zero for Zero's followers.

What a bunch of losers.

 

[saveliberty]

The union president is vowing to review his request for arbitration. She made that promise yesterday. She also indicated that she never received the prior requests.

[Pepper]

saveliberty

 

 

 

What PC language. " am going to reach out to Major Godin today".

 

If she had bothered reaching for her mouse to open his email she would have been on top of this long ago.

 

 

 

The union president is vowing to review his request for arbitration. She made that promise yesterday. She also indicated that she never received the prior requests.