What Your Union DOESN'T Tell You (Until You Try To Leave!) | TBNS 1091

David Osborne joins Brian Nichols to reveal how public sector unions trap members into paying union dues long after they quit - and why leaving your union is nearly impossible right now. Osborne is the former CEO of Americans for Fair Treatment and helped start the Fairness Center, a public interest law firm representing teachers, firefighters, police, and municipal workers against their own unions. This is a throwback to Episode 233, April 2021, with a five-year scorecard on what he got right and what he missed.

Inside, you'll hear the uncensored breakdown of the union resignation window, the restrictive membership forms nobody reads at orientation, and the clause that makes public employees pay dues regardless of membership status. This is the playbook nobody hands you when you take a government job.

And here's the part that should bother you... the union never had to win. They just had to make leaving expensive enough that you stopped trying. What happens to your paycheck when the organization that's supposed to protect you is the one you need protection from?

At 6:00, the Pennsylvania teacher whose own union blocked where her money could go - even after they agreed she'd never pay them a dime. At 10:17, the gym membership analogy that explains the whole trap in sixty seconds. And at 25:30, the specific request David made to the Supreme Court in April 2021 - and the answer he got eight weeks later.

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Chapters:

0:00 The Gym You Can't Quit

2:30 Who Your Union Actually Fails

6:00 The Teacher They Wouldn't Let Give

10:17 Quit The Union. Keep Paying Dues.

18:00 One Person Against The Machine

21:00 The Free Way Out Nobody Mentions

24:00 The Scorecard

25:30 The Ask The Court Ignored

LINKS

DAVID OSBORNE

• Commonwealth Foundation (current role) - https://commonwealthfoundation.org/staff/david-osborne/
• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-r-osborne-59505668/
• Americans for Fair Treatment (Special Counsel) - https://americansforfairtreatment.org/author/david-osborne/
• Goldstein Law Partners - https://goldsteinlp.com/attorney/david-osborne/
• Writing at Reason - https://reason.com/people/david-osborne2/
• Writing at Law & Liberty - https://lawliberty.org/author/david-osborne/

MENTIONED / REFERENCED

• Americans for Fair Treatment - https://americansforfairtreatment.org
• The Fairness Center - https://www.fairnesscenter.org
• Ladley v. PSEA - https://www.fairnesscenter.org/cases/ladley-v-psea/
• Misja v. PSEA - https://www.fairnesscenter.org/cases/misja-v-psea/
• The Battle for Worker Freedom (50-state grades) - https://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/research/state-public-sector-labor-laws/
• How Government Unions Fund Politics - https://commonwealthfoundation.org/research/government-unions-fund-politics/
• Original Episode 233 (April 2021) - https://www.briannicholsshow.com/videos/233-david-osborne-ceo-of-americans-for-fair-treatment/

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