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Judge Halts Union Release Time (Government Unions on the Run!)
Goldwater Institute ^
| June 6, 2012
| Goldwater Institute
Posted on 06/06/2012 9:54:46 AM PDT by inkling
Phoenix Maricopa County Superior Court Katherine Cooper ruled in favor of the Goldwater Institute Tuesday to enjoin provisions of a contract between the City of Phoenix and the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association allowing officers to perform union work on police time.
The contract grants approximately $1 million in release time dedicated to union business, including to six police officers who perform exclusively union work and collect automatic overtime. The current contract expires on June 30. A new contract continuing release time was approved last month by a 4-4-1 vote by the Phoenix City Council, with the abstaining vote counting as a yes. The injunction applies only to the current contract, so additional legal efforts will be necessary to extend the ruling to the new contract that takes effect July 1.
According to the ruling, release time constitutes a subsidy because the contract "does not obligate PLEA to perform any specific service or give anything in return for the receipt of $1 million for release time."
Union release time is blatantly unconstitutional, said Clint Bolick, Vice President of Litigation at the Goldwater Institute.
(Excerpt) Read more at goldwaterinstitute.org ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: peus; spending; unions
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posted on
06/06/2012 9:54:56 AM PDT
by
inkling
To: inkling
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posted on
06/06/2012 9:58:18 AM PDT
by
Freddd
(No PA Engineers)
To: inkling
An equally important issue is the government withholding union dues from paychecks.
That is a subsidy.
Force the unions to collect their dues the old fashioned way... send a bill, and hope it gets paid.
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posted on
06/06/2012 9:59:14 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
To: inkling
Het, Jude, don’t make it bad...
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posted on
06/06/2012 9:59:47 AM PDT
by
MileHi
( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
To: MileHi
Hey, Jude, dont make it bad...Looks like Jude is taking a sad song and making it better...
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posted on
06/06/2012 10:02:29 AM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(My dream ticket for 2012 is John Galt & Dagny Taggart!)
To: Freddd
Ugh, “Judge” not “Jude” — my bad!
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posted on
06/06/2012 10:02:34 AM PDT
by
inkling
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Force the unions to collect their dues the old fashioned way... send a bill, and hope it gets paid.
Do you really want to meet their collection agency?
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posted on
06/06/2012 10:02:55 AM PDT
by
jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
To: Night Hides Not
I typo’ed a wise ass remark about a typo. Sheesh
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posted on
06/06/2012 10:08:07 AM PDT
by
MileHi
( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
To: jmcenanly
Do you really want to meet their collection agency? If you can choose when and where, it could be a successful, productive meeting.
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posted on
06/06/2012 10:15:11 AM PDT
by
tacticalogic
("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
To: inkling
“six police officers who perform exclusively union work”
Absolutely outrageous.
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posted on
06/06/2012 10:15:44 AM PDT
by
Psycho_Bunny
(Burning the Quran is a waste of perfectly good fire.)
To: inkling
...a 4-4-1 vote by the Phoenix City Council, with the abstaining vote counting as a yes.
What the hell is this? Since when is an abstention considered a "yes"? Seems to me there's a whole lot of "deemin'" goin' on.
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posted on
06/06/2012 10:17:28 AM PDT
by
RobinOfKingston
(The instinct toward liberalism is located in the part of the brain called the rectal lobe.)
To: inkling
How many double negatives does it take to make a positive?
Had to stand on my head and read this 3 times to figure out it was a good thing.
2.5 seems to be the answer to my opening question.....
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posted on
06/06/2012 10:36:43 AM PDT
by
G Larry
(Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding)
To: jmcenanly
It’s not my problem, since I don’t belong to a union.
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posted on
06/06/2012 11:12:58 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
To: Psycho_Bunny
Which part is more outrageous? That they get paid for doing union work? Or that 6 officers get paid $1 million ($166,000/yr each)?
The FOP needs to be reminded that an infantryman gets paid about $20K per year.
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posted on
06/06/2012 11:19:13 AM PDT
by
pierrem15
(Claudius: "Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.")
To: inkling
"People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or some contrivance to raise prices. - Adam Smith
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posted on
06/06/2012 12:02:57 PM PDT
by
conservatism_IS_compassion
(The idea around which “liberalism" coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
To: conservatism_IS_compassion
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posted on
06/06/2012 12:42:26 PM PDT
by
publius911
(Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
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