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US Supreme Court deals blow to labor unions

beneteaubeneteau Member Posts: 8,552 ✭✭✭
edited June 2018 in General Discussion
The Supreme Court has upended a decades-old precedent that allowed unions to collect fees from government employees, including those who were not actually part of the union.

The justices rules 5-4 that public sector unions may not collect mandatory fees from non-members.
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  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I keep seeing this ruled 5-4 on just about everything.


    [V]
    RLTW

  • wpageabcwpageabc Member Posts: 8,760 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gov workers have no right to organized labor...
    "What is truth?'
  • oldWinchesterfanoldWinchesterfan Member Posts: 1,050 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Sam06
    I keep seeing this ruled 5-4 on just about everything.


    [V]


    Be thankful the last presidential election went the way that it did. 2020 will be just as important.
  • Sam06Sam06 Member Posts: 21,244 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am really tired of these partisan line votes in SCOTUS. They need to interpret the LAW and the Constitution not what their "Political" affiliation tells them too.

    There are 3 Justices over 75 years old. I think 77 should be a mandatory retirement age for them as it is for most everyone else.

    Stephen Bryer is 79

    R-B Ginsburg is 85

    Anthony Kennedy is 81

    They need to go.

    Like term limits this needs to be done to cut down on the "Swamp"!
    RLTW

  • auctionplugauctionplug Member Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    So can they still force you to join a union?


    .... I guess that does not matter as if you dont want to pay it, they cant force you to.[;)]


    Now if this would also apply to non govt employees....


    But dont count them out yet. The dems will always find a way to fund their endeavors.[:(!]
  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,771 ******
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by wpageabc
    Gov workers have no right to organized labor...


    These two phrases, "Gov't workers & Labor" are totally an oxymoron when used in the same sentence! [:0]
  • ochocoochoco Member Posts: 216
    edited November -1
    Kennedy just said he is to retire.
  • chiefrchiefr Member Posts: 14,115 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by wpageabc
    Gov workers have no right to organized labor...




    Exactly, this is taxation without representation.
  • gunnut505gunnut505 Member Posts: 10,290
    edited November -1
    When I worked for the state, they let AFSCME be their Union.
    Regardless of the employees' concerns about communist support coming from their wages, the die was cast in this (d) run state.
    The contracts were never ratified by employees, there wasn't even a vote taken; Everybody got to pay dues, non-union folk were charged "fair dues", ostensibly to cover Union expenses of "representing" them.
    Two full years after the Union was forced upon them, the employees finally got to read the garbage in the contract.
    No strikes.
    No work/production slow-downs.
    No grievances allowed; take it up with your supervisor.
    Wages to remain static for 5 years.
    Dues must be paid, or you are fired.
    State Personnel Board had nothing to do with any of it.

    Why do employees need a contract for that?!
  • Ricci WrightRicci Wright Member Posts: 8,259 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The dems are having another lousy year. Ain?t it grand!!
  • nemesisenforcernemesisenforcer Member Posts: 10,513 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by wpageabc
    Gov workers have no right to organized labor...


    They shouldn't have the right to reproduce
  • guntech59guntech59 Member Posts: 23,188 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am a federal employee on Ft Drum. I do not belong to a union and no dues are taken from my pay.

    This case must be from a specific place, not a country-wide issue.
  • mjrfd99mjrfd99 Member Posts: 4,553 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Ricci Wright
    The dems are having another lousy year. Ain?t it grand!!


    The rats are losing their rotten minds over the SCOTUS already.
    Bad day for the dnc filth. Should be everyday.
    GREAT day for the USA and MAGA.
  • WearyTravelerWearyTraveler Member Posts: 2,019 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Ricci Wright
    The dems are having another lousy year. Ain?t it grand!!


    This too shall pass... [|)]
    ”People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
    - GEORGE ORWELL -
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