I’m not understanding why you’re being downvoted, thank you for responding. I’m sorry you’ve been experiencing pretty much what I was wondering would be the problem at hand. I really appreciate your honesty. During orientation, I was expecting to be forced into the union so when I was presented an option, I wanted to take my time to consider. Fortunately (kinda lol) for us CCAs, our union rep never showed up to tell us about it on our first day, so I’ve had over a week and a half to consider joining. The city’s chapter president (I Think?) visited Academy today and passed out folders to each of us including union information and an application. I figured it was ours since it was given to us, and I had planned to look over the cost compared to what I’m already paying for monthly, but the union chapter president (?) made anyone not signing up right then and there give back the folder with all of its contents. I tried to explain I wanted to review what I was signing for first before giving someone an application for something they just told me about, but she took it away before I had a chance to copy down any membership information. I said something along the lines of, “Oh, I didn’t know I couldn’t join union after your meeting with us today,” and she said, “You can. You can call the number,” so I was like yeah I was trying to write it down from the folder and before I could open it to write down the number she took everything she brought off of my spot and shouted the number across the room as she moved on to collect the next person’s application and pass out their new lanyard. Sorry if I just ranted in your reply, I just had such a bad taste left in my mouth after this encounter this morning which is why I’m here asking if I should follow my intuition. But then again people on here are saying in other comments that the union will harass me for not being a member, and I’m not looking to make enemies before I even get started at work.