What Prop. 226 would suggest is that before a union could petition their government, they would need to make contact every year with every individual member and get their okay to spend a proportional share of their dues money before they could go to Congress to try to preserve working people's current health and pension plans. And that costs money for things like lawyers. Business or any other segment of society doesn't have these rules except Unions. You can't just take on group and give them a different set of rules. You can't just let employers and the wealthy get all the benefits, especially when their goals have been proven to be anti-worker.
Labor already has to find ways over and above dues to finance political activity.
We raised a lot of money that is totally voluntary and not associates with dues. It's referred to as 'free money' that we can use to make contributions to candidates and causes we endorse and that affect our lives. Prop 226 is nothing more than an attempt by the right-wing and wealth corporations to silence the voice of working families. What would happen is that all the news we'd get would be right-wing opinions. For instance, Pacific Bell first petitioned the California Public Utilities Commission and Congress to get in the long-distance business.