Posted on 06/27/2018 7:11:40 AM PDT by jazusamo
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that pubic sector unions for state and local employees can’t force non-members to pay a “fair-share” union fee.
In a 5-4 ruling Tuesday, the court said the extraction of agency fees from non-consenting public sector employees violates the First Amendment.
The case centers on an Illinois law, similar to those in 22 other states, that allow public-sector unions to collect a “fair-share fee” from employees for non-political activities like collective bargaining, regardless of whether those employees belong to the union or not. Mark Janus, a state child support specialist at the center of the case, argued against having to give up about $45 from each paycheck to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 31. Doing so, he said, violates his First Amendment rights because it forces him to support the union’s messaging.
The union, AFSCME, argues it needs the “fair-share” funds to offset the significant costs it incurs negotiating working conditions for all employees. State laws allowing unions to collect these fees are justified, the union said, to avoid a situation where nonunion members get a "free ride."
A group of 15 public sector unions, warned the court in a friend of the court brief that eliminating fair-share fees would eviscerate public sector unions, depriving them of resources they need to perform their essential public functions.
“The elimination of fair-share fees would create an all-or-nothing choice for the workers whom unions represent: pay union dues or pay nothing but still receive the benefits a union provides,” they wrote.
“In that world, many rational employees will choose to become free riders.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I was CFO for a PEU for ten years. Boy did I learn how corrupt the system is. I was in charge of their PAC reporting, and lobbying, and set their service fee each year. I kept them on the up and up, they passed audits with flying colors.
Great. Now, if we can only get the same ruling vs. govt and ‘taxes’ [v. A1S8\Constitution] (aka theft to buy votes. aka welfare/cronyism).
The first U.S. state to permit collective bargaining by public employees was Wisconsin, in 1959. Collective bargaining is now permitted in three fourths of U.S. states. By the 1960s and 1970s public-sector unions expanded rapidly to cover teachers, clerks, firemen, police, prison guards and others. In 1962, President John Kennedy issued Executive Order 10988, upgrading the status of unions of federal workers.
Those dues are bribes for the democrats.
Money from you that is used against you. Supporting socialism and the democrat party. The homeless explosion and prisoners being released by the 10’s of thousands.
What is PEU. State?
Public employee union.
I thought it meant there was an odor
Lol that too.
I don’t think so.
Federal unions do not negotiate pay levels. Those are determined by the GS schedule. Nor do you have to join.
Getting rid of them would barely be noticed other than by the officers.
No it isn’t.
Unions reduce the level of employment since the higher wages reduce the demand for labor.
So they obtain their gains from the losses of other workers
What an overall great term for the Court. Only one bad ruling on the internet sales taxes - the rest of have been spectacular. Justice Kennedy has been part of some whoppers over the years, but he closes out his career on a very high note in my opinion.
If Hillary had been elected, there would have been on Neil Gorsuch. Hillary would have appointed a far left Justice. The 5-4 votes would have been in the liberals favor.
Having spent 36 years working for the federal government, I understand how the system works. The federal and state employee unions contribute large amounts of money to the Dems almost exclusively. At the federal level, these unions have more power than you may think. They don't set pay levels, but they are active in other ways.
The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) is an American labor union representing over 670,000 employees of the federal government, about 5,000 employees of the District of Columbia, and a few hundred private sector employees, mostly in and around federal facilities. AFGE is the largest union for civilian, non-postal federal employees and the largest union for District of Columbia employees who report directly to the mayor (i.e., outside D.C. public schools). It is affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
Federal employees' right to organize and bargain binding labor contracts was established in law by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, which AFGE helped to draft, and which states that collective bargaining in the federal sector is in the public interest while also barring the right to strike.
AFGE's December 2009 court suits stopped aspects of the George W. Bush Administration's "National Security Personnel System" (for DOD) and MAXHR (for DHS), and AFGE also won changes to law that make the contracting out process more balanced in regard to federal employees' interests. In 2010, the Obama Administration issued an Executive Order for the Federal Government to focus on insourcing Federal jobs rather than outsourcing them overseas or to contractors.
In June 2011, AFGE also won the historic largest single nationwide consolidated bargaining unit election of over 44,000 employees of the Transportation Security Administration, part of the Department of Homeland Security. AFGE is working for a change in law which will give them the same collective bargaining rights as other federal employees.
Labor relations in the federal sector are governed by the Federal Labor Relations Authority, an independent federal agency, and federal sector unions have recourse to binding arbitration and to the Federal Services Impasses Panel to resolve impasses which might lead to a strike in the private sector.
The postal union has even more power, including collective bargaining rights.
More Lib insanity. Keep it coming!
I was 31 years and never saw the union do much. Without the threat of extortion to increase pay or get their way they are toothless.
You are correct, I don’t know what the hell I thought I was answering.
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