Posted on 01/31/2019 11:51:09 AM PST by Twotone
When asked about his ultimate goal, a union president reportedly offered a simple answer: “More.” Public-sector unions always are pushing for higher pay and benefits and more protections for members. Getting more is a journey. There is no end game. Therefore, it has been enlightening seeing how these unions react when faced with the prospect of having “less.” Not surprisingly, they — and their allies — are accepting the new reality with the same graciousness that a pit bull shows when you try to yank a steak bone out of its mouth.
The possibility of “less” comes from the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last June in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. The high court ruled that forcing public employees to pay mandatory dues to a union is a violation of the First Amendment, thus overturning a state of affairs that has existed since the court decided the Abood case in 1977. Since then, public employees could opt out of paying for a union’s direct political activities but still were required to pay an “agency fee” to cover collective-bargaining activities.
Mark Janus, the recent case’s plaintiff, argued that everything a public-employee union does is essentially political given that it involves public funds and public policy. If a teachers’ union, say, gains a new protection for misbehaving employees, then that may reduce the quality of public schools. If a janitor’s union scores a massive new payout that leaves fewer dollars for other public services. The court agreed. Now we are seeing the details play out as some members try to quit their unions and keep their hard-earned cash.
Union boosters and critics have long seen this coming.
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Even FDR knew the inherent dangers with public sector unions was their ability to buy politicians to further their own looting of the treasury.
Democrats engaging in criminal acts and acts that benefit them?? I don’t believe it...
Democrats can try to screw with people exercising their Janus rights but it won’t work until Trump is gone because he stacked the NLRB with his people. By the time Democrats get control of the NRLB again many of those union will be decimated. So this is one victory they cannot take away.
We can thank unions for so many wonderful things, like bankrupting the cities and towns and states.
Democrats always rig the system. They believe that if they lose, then it’s illegitimate.
“” it won’t work until Trump is gone because he stacked the NLRB with his people.””
It must be one of the few the Trump has his own people. Most Depts seem Obama-run to me. Particularly the JustUS Dept. Crooked Ba$tards.
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