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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
But they were forced to pay dues to a public sector union.
The State of Illinois, through its Department of Human Services Home Services Program, pays personal home health care assistants to deliver care to elderly and disabled persons in the state. Under Illinois law, the assistants are considered public employees for purposes of collective bargaining. See Illinois Public Labor Relations Act
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-7th-circuit/1877109.html
SO
MUCH
WINNING!
Do you know which union?
Guess the SC cann't see to make up their mind so they take the lazy way out and throw it back to lower courts. Can't make up their minds leaves me with less support for a court that cannot make up its minds.
“””” Under Illinois law, the assistants are considered public employees for purposes of collective bargaining. See Illinois Public Labor Relations Act””””””
So they are considered employees of the state just enough to be forced to pay union dues. No other benefits.
That ruling may have been specific only to public sector unions, but it doesn’t mean the same legal reasoning wouldn’t apply to non-public sector unions. The court probably just needs to get another case in front of it with a different situation in order to extend the ruling.
That would be great. It would be an obvious extension of the original ruling.
Isn't there a similar case going thru the Michigan system?
In either case, I hope they prevail in the lawsuit and get all their money back plus interest, court costs, and attorney fees.
Ouch! Instead of giving to the Dems, they’ll be defending themselves in court. I would think that this would break many of them.
The positive feedback loop will cycle when the unions ask members for more money in dues for legal defense.
Nice!
Looks like it. Some States have forced families that receive disability payments for taking care of their children at home to pay some of those payments to a union. Daycares that receive partial payments from programs that help with working parent’s bills have been forced to pay unions. Public employee unions are evil.
Just when things could not be better — THEY GOT BETTER!!!!
MAGAA!
The unions sought to ‘unionize’ them on the basis that having public funds go to the daycare worker made them public employees, and thus under the union. Therefore, the SCOTUS decision would apply
Oh ouch.
You mean unions will now have to bear the brunt of the scrutiny they dished out to everyone else?
LMAO
What are thugs going to do?
Soup kitchens, skid row, dogs n cats sleeping together...
This would make my day and I really hope it breaks the Natl. Education Association in tiny pieces!
“And this could bankrupt them.”
Wonder what they’ll cut first. Pension payments? Salaries of current union representatives? Political contributions?
Will they raise dues of remaining members?
Gonna need a big tub of popcorn for this one.
>>Yes. But the ruling last week only applied to public unions. Daycare workers are not in a public union. <<
We have to assume that in the instant case the union was indeed a public union.
Big unions are actually 0-3
Their rank and file love Trump. The union bosses are firmly entrenched in the democrat political machine. This might be the biggest blow of them all courtesy of Donald Trump.
Union members are faced with the obvious problem..... my leadership supports politicians and politics that are not good for me, my family, or my job. Who do I have a better life with? Trump or the DNC?
In bigger question, did union dues stop getting automatically deducted at end of month payroll? Has anyone seen how public sector employers are determining Opt-In for existing employees before taking more money or are they continuing business-as-usual unless asked to stop? I understand that for new employees they need to be asked, but what is actually affect for existing employees?
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