[pfflier]

Smackdown to the unions.

[McGavin999]

Hopefully something will be done about other unions like government workers unions and teachers unions.

[rrrod]

Union scum alert.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

I remember my leftist Auntie supporting Chavez back then. There’s a grade school in Madistan named for him. I’m sure there are many others.

I have mixed feelings about this, though. I KNOW how hard it is to produce food, as I try to grow & preserve a lot of food myself, and back when I was ‘poor’ (subjective; this IS America, NONE of us starve!) a garden really helped stretch my grocery dollars when I had a shiftless husband and three teen boys to feed.

AND, I also KNOW how much more expensive food would be, if we did not employ people willing to work dirt-cheap to plant and harvest and if they were unionized, all bets would be off.

Also, I sure HATE what Big Ag is doing to small, family farms, so I have to side with the farmers when I can.

[zeugma]

Click the following for a list of this term's Supreme Court Decisions.

[kiryandil]

The dispute arises out of a 2015 effort by agricultural union organizers to persuade workers at a Dorris, California strawberry nursery and at a Central Valley fruit packing operation to join a collective bargaining organization. The visit to the northern California farm was conducted under the authority of a regulation first finalized in 1975 under the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act. The nursery owner sued for a declaratory judgment and an injunction barring future visits by labor organizers, arguing that the regulation results in a physical taking of property and an unreasonable seizure under the U.S. Constitution.

Both the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California (Lawrence J. O'Neill, former Chief District Judge [Dubya judge]) and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected the request for an injunction and the nursery's and fruit packer's arguments that state authorization of union organizer visits under the state regulation is a taking of property or an unreasonable seizure. The 2-1 opinion by the appeals court was written by Judge Richard Paez [Rapin Bill judge] and joined by Judge William A. Fletcher [Rapin Bill judge]. Judge Edward Leavy [Reagan judge] dissented. Judge Sandra Segal Ikuta [Dubya judge] wrote a dissent from the denial of rehearing en banc that was joined by 7 other judges.