Posted on 06/29/2018 9:28:28 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31 is a ruthless and brazen attack on the freedom of working people. It caps off a shocking Supreme Court term, which saw the justices threaten the rights of women, LGBTQ people, Muslims, and now public service workers.
The 1.6 million members of AFSCME keep American communities safe and strong through their selfless service. We are social workers, EMTs, corrections officers, school custodians and more. We plow the roads, drive the school buses and pick up the trash. But that is apparently not enough to get a fair hearing before the nation’s highest court.
The Janus case was brought to the court on the strength of political and financial support from some of the country’s richest people, who want to rig the economy and the political system even more in their own favor.
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The court’s decision is also a breathtaking act of judicial activism. It reverses a longstanding precedent that has helped to keep labor peace in communities nationwide for more than four decades. By imposing a one-size-fits-all solution, it violates the principles of federalism that conservatives claim to cherish. Justice Kagan put it best in her dissenting opinion:
“There is no sugarcoating today’s opinion. The majority overthrows a decision entrenched in this Nation’s law — and in its economic life — for over 40 years. As a result, it prevents the American people, acting through their state and local officials, from making important choices about workplace governance.
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The 1st Amendment is judicial activism. We saw this movie play out. Most gov. and teachers’ union members decided that the union did not give them much value.
So much carp, so little time...
I is mind numbing to watch the Leftists says something like this.
“The court’s decision is also a breathtaking act of judicial activism.”
If it were, they would be praising it for decades.
Wrong.
If the AFSCME people are so good and noble they’ll happily volunteer and pay their union dues... right?
What’s the problem here?
Their heads are exploding.
Their framework for their “Progressive Utopia” is crumbling....falling apart.
No but they can break their corrupt special treatment they been granted by decades of politicians.
Public employee unions should not even be legal.
But, it CAN SHRINK IT!
translation: We’ll just go back to the old tried-and-true method of sending thugs to your door.
“...The court’s decision is also a breathtaking act of judicial activism. It reverses a longstanding precedent that has helped to keep labor peace in communities nationwide for more than four decades....”
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LOL — “Longstanding precedent to keep labor peace” = Things will be “peaceful” for you as long as you involuntarily give us money from every paycheck you get. In other times that was referred to as “protection money”.
“5 justices cannot break the solidarity of America’s unions” but 10’s of thousands declining to have dues withheld will!
But this line, “It reverses a longstanding precedent that has helped to keep labor peace in communities nationwide” tells us what is coming next. Loss of dues will result in violence.
It’s like a mob protection racket. “It would sure be a shame if something happened to your non union paying household.”
Yep.. The Left will always find a way to be corrupt and evil.
EMTs, custodians, social workers, corrections officers can still do what they do. But now they don’t have pay dues to corrupt unions that use it to elect creeps like Obamalamadindong.
Employees strike against Employer = good!
Employees strike against Union = Bad!
Solidarity was broken long ago by greedy Union leaders.
All Trump has to do is kill JFK's EO 10988 and Nixon's subsequent one.
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