Posted on 07/03/2018 7:00:04 AM PDT by GonzoII
Organized labor, already reeling from a potentially major financial hit thanks to a Supreme Court ruling last week that could result in millions of public-sector workers cutting off funding, could be subject to another blow from the justices: class-action suits from those workers seeking to get paid back from the unions.
In a little-noticed action, the Supreme Court invalidated a ruling last week by the 7th Circuit Court denying class-action certification in a case called Riffey v. Rauner. The case involved nonunion state-subsidized Illinois home healthcare workers seeking to be repaid the funds that for years they were forced to give to the union that ostensibly represented them.
The justices in effect told the lower court to do it again in light of their ruling last week in the case Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Janus found that coerced dues from nonunion public-sector workers were unconstitutional.
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Wow. This could effectively break the unions.
whooopsadaisy
I thought last weeks ruling did not apply to unions in the private sector.
Big Unions are 0-2 this summer. Last week it was, “No longer can they require dues from those in the public sector who are not members and do not wish to pay.”
More Winning!!!!
Or, at the very least, slow the firehose funding to Democrats!
:D
Whoo-hoo!
The union thugs may not get to keep all that money they stole from non-union members!
They should have thought of that years ago. This could be billions and billions of dollars having to be paid back.
This may bankrupt unions.
:)
This is yuge!
Yes. But the ruling last week only applied to public unions. Daycare workers are not in a public union. Confusing. I do hope this expands to private sector unions.
Winning.
Wow, talk about a major ruling initially flying under the radar!
I see your point. The home healthcare workers might have been classified as state employees.
“I thought last weeks ruling did not apply to unions in the private sector.”
This action is against a public sector union. Rauner is the Governor of Illinois.
And this could bankrupt them.
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I don’t believe so. Here in Minnesota there was a push to get the home daycare people to unionize. Governor Goofy Dayton was pushing it if I remember right. These would not be considered state employees.
“Daycare workers are not in a public union.“
Here in Illinois they were forced by law to pay dues money to a public sector union, most of them quite against their will. This suit seeks repayment of dues forcibly extracted from the plaintiffs.
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So that opens the door.
They still have to go through the whole appellate shebang. But they have permission to start.
So YAY and let's see what happens.
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