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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gimme Danger" data-source="post: 3356634" data-attributes="member: 61557">Political campaign contributions are through DRIVE, which is a voluntary contribution separate from dues.Dues are used for advocacy for laws that help us as workers, or against laws that hurt us as workers. But this advocacy (and some other expenses) is calculated annually and is the difference between member dues and non-member fair share fees.If you think the union shouldn't advocate for us as workers then we are doomed as a labor movement.To paraphrase Walter Reuther of the UAW, what we negotiate at the bargaining table can be wiped away with legislation. (Including our right to bargain collectively).</blockquote>