UNION FEES

You inspire mobilization against the law El Khomri.

In this day of strike, the French will find themselves once again doubling hostages by blocking the street one hand, but also by the forced funding of trade unions.

After Perruchot report on the financing of trade unions, the Institute of Business Administration (IAE) in Paris and audit consultancy Audisol were published in 2014 a detailed study on "Financial Transparency unions and employers ". This study highlights the total dependence of the trade unions on public subsidies. The CGT saw 54% of public subsidies under perfusion, while the budget of the MEDEF has 34% of public money, 81% for CGPME.

In addition to these direct subsidies, it has been established since 1 January 2015 a mandatory contribution of 0.016% of gross earnings which is levied on the payroll and paid out to trade unions and employers' unions.

Taxpayers Associates denounces the fact that we take arbitrarily our money from our taxes and employees to finance unions. Everyone must be free to join the union or association of their choice. But the state subsidizing these trade union centers by public money interferes in private affairs by Nature.

We must deliver the unions their dependencies with public money: unions are representative of the expectations of the French, when they will contribute directly and freely!

While you denounce the very low representation of unions, do not you think that the introduction of a compulsory contribution to their funding might just be a way to reconnect the link between employees and organizations supposed to represent?

The unionization rate strongly decreases, it represents less than 8% of the workforce (6% private, 15% public). By imposing a mandatory contribution to their funding, the unions will have no effort required to find new members and thus restore a lost relationship with employees.

As part of the professional reform in 2014, was created the "employer's contribution to the financing of trade union."

If the rate of 0.016% of this contribution may seem homeopathic, the final amount, he is generous: about 100 million euros a year shared by the unions. Every employer is obliged to pay this tax, whether or not any union presence in the company.

This is a heavier tax burden on businesses, and ultimately wages.

Impose this "union tax" levied directly on each paycheck, every employee and every month, is an anti-democratic measure to ensure a financial windfall to disconnected organizations the reality of French. By creating this tax, employers' unions and employees to ensure longevity paid by our taxes: union centers are ensured to receive public funding, regardless of their number of members!