Mo' Money, Mo' ... media coverage?

So this little project is picking up steam, as a little birdie who has had it with the state worker unions forwarded us the following email below, asking the membership to vote "yes" to ... collecting more money from the membership in order to kick off a "media campaign."

The email is below, but a question, state workers: Feel like ponying up even more dough to your union?

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Every member should have received a ballot in the mail about the Strategic Industry Fund (SIF). We are asking members to decide if our Union should collect and earmark funds to be used solely for a media campaign. If you go to the Union’s New Jersey website www.cwanj.org and look down the right hand side of the page, you can view some of the radio and television spots that would be broadcast if we had this fund.

Countless members have asked about us having our own campaign to counter the misinformation put out by politicians and some of the press. The creation of this fund is the way to get our message out there.

Other Unionized workers both inside the CWA and in other Unions, pay into funds to support media campaigns. The commercials that you have heard or seen by and in support of other public workers are, in fact, on the airwaves because those workers pay into similar funds.

For the past 30 years, state workers in CWA have paid a lower membership rate than other workers in CWA an in other Unions. Supporting the SIF would cost approximately 25 cents a work day or about $5 per month. NONE of this money would go to support politicians.

I understand that no one likes to spend additional money, however, this is the reality of the fight we find ourselves in. So I recommend that you support this and vote yes.

As always, we are a democratic Union, and the final choice is yours.