Posted on 04/04/2011 12:58:17 AM PDT by Libloather
Federal Rights For State Workers Upheld
Published on April 01, 2011
by Staff Reporter
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (USA)
A U.S. district court judge has ruled states cannot pass laws that limit private-sector workers' rights to negotiate job terms, a union attorney said.
"The state can't legislate workers' rights," said attorney Terrance McGann, who represented the Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters in a case challenging a 2010 law in Illinois intended to allow exhibitors at Chicago's McCormick Place convention hall to bypass paying overtime, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday.
Judge Ronald Guzman's ruling upholding the National Labor Relations Act on behalf of the carpenters and Teamsters Local 727 will seriously set back efforts to bring business back to the convention hall, which has been losing business to cheaper locations such as Orlando, Fla., the newspaper said.
Jim Reilly, a trustee at the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, an agency run by Chicago and the state of Illinois, said, "The implementation of those (state) reforms has, virtually overnight, transformed McCormick Place."
"Not only were our existing customers convinced to keep their events in Chicago, but new shows have been rapidly signing up."
**SNIP**
McGann said the ruling could have implications in other states. State governments legislating worker rights "is exactly what they are trying to do to public employees in Wisconsin, in Indiana, in Ohio," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at officialwire.com ...
Wow.
Congratulations to the union thugs and their lawyers - - they can now die along with the Convention Center.
Really, who cares?
No, this applies to private-sector, not public workers.
Do taxpayer’s have rights? Let’s form a taxpayer’s union and go on strike.
Ronald A. Guzman is an Article III federal judge in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, one of the busiest courts in the nation. He joined the court in 1999 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton.
Early life
Justice Guzman graduated from Lehigh University with a Bachelor’s Degree in 1970 and his juris doctorate degree from New York University Law School in 1973.
Legal career
Guzman started out as a private practice attorney for two years. In 1975, Guzman became an Assistant states attorney for Cook County until 1980. For the next four years, he served as a staff attorney for the Association House of Chicago, a Chicago Community center, while also working as a private practice attorney until his appointment to the federal judiciary.
Federal judicial career
From 1990 to 1999 Guzman served as a US Magistrate Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Then in 1999 on the recommendation of Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, Guzman was nominated by President Bill Clinton on August 5, 1999, to a federal seat vacated by Brian Duff. Guzman was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on November 10, 1999, and received commission on November 15, 1999.
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A Liberal — no surprise there!
In other words, government cannot pass laws against organized crime.
>> states cannot pass laws that limit private-sector workers’ rights to negotiate job terms
And the problem is what?
Providing the swift beat-down of thuggery and intimidation, there’s no reason why organized labor should be restricted in any sense whatsoever. If we’re talking about liberties, this is part of the deal.
The only worse this judge could be is if he had married into the Daley family.
BTW, in post #7, I’m talking about PRIVATE organized labor.
Collective bargaining that involves taxpayer dollars should be outlawed (save exceptions for LEO and emergency services).
Why do they get an exemption?
It’s time for RICO charges, IMHO. Seems like breaking rocks is the last chance for the taxpayers to remain free.
What an incredibly mis-leading headline.
“They” being the cops?
Astoundingly so.
Agreed, but that's what you get from those crappy on-line wannabe "news" sites.
Yes, and the firefighters.
Why should cops receive special protection?
Except the Fed government has already OUTLAWED collective bargaining for their own employees as per Jimmy Carter who stripped them of this so called “right” when he was president.
I seem to have trouble finding that judges can make laws per the Constitution.
Can someone help me out here by showing me where it’s at in the document?
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