Well Thats Me: It sounds like we have very similar problems. There is a lot of apathy amongst the Engineers at Air Canada. As much as everyone bitches and complains about our present union, we had difficulty signing up 50% of the guys to form a new union.
However, we are there now.
Rightstuff: Our dues with the new Association will be 2 X Hourly rate / monthly, which works out to approximately 1% of salary.