[caption id="attachment_1708" align="alignleft" width="300"]SEIU member leaders lobby to protect health care for all at the state legislature.[/caption]

The anti-union bills filed at the Tennessee General Assembly this session either failed or were withdrawn from the legislative agenda, including:

HB 115 (Alexander): Certain prohibitions of payroll deductions for public employees, including a prohibition on a state agency or local government from deducting and remitting from an employee's payroll any dues of an employee association.

Result: BILL WITHDRAWN BY SPONSOR

HB 356 (Dunn)/SB 404 (Gresham): Payroll deduction of dues to professional employees' organizations. This bill makes dues deduction an option for school systems in the Tennessee. This bill states that if a school system makes payroll deduction to one professional employee association it must make availability to all professional employees associations with the employee’s authorization must be in writing and the employee can stop the dues deduction at any time. This bill allows the schools to charge up to 10% of the dues collected to process the dues deduction.

Result: BILL DEFEATED IN SENATE FINANCE CMTE.