South Carolina governor sued over hostility to unions

Reuters ^ | 1/20/2011

[redk]

(Reuters) - South Carolina unions filed suit on Thursday against new Republican Governor Nikki Haley and her administration, saying hostility toward unions and workers joining unions is unconstitutional.

The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers and the South Carolina AFL-CIO alleges that Haley is violating the federal constitutional and statutory rights to free speech, free association and due process.

South Carolina is one of 22 "Right to Work" states and Haley said she will ensure that South Carolina workers are not compelled to join a union.

[redk]

Only been in office a week and the AFL-CIO is suing her already, I like it.

[Jet Jaguar]

Ping.

[mongo141]

F**K the Unions. They have long out lived themselves now they are just a bunch of money grubbing self servers, kind of like most politicians.

[SandRat]

Stick another finger in the AFL-CIO’s eye!!!

[arderkrag]

(Reuters) - South Carolina unions filed suit on Thursday against new Republican Governor Nikki Haley and her administration, saying hostility toward unions and workers joining unions is unconstitutional.


AHEM...

[TwelveOfTwenty]

The plant in South Carolina is expected to create thousands of new jobs, and machinists in South Carolina voted against representation by the union.

Unions have gone from fighting for the rights of workers to bullying them.

[Terry Mross]

If the courts rule against her, man, are we in trouble.

[MeganC]

If the SEIU sues her I’ll have to send her a check.

[colorado tanker]

Interesting state. The guv can jet off to South America for a little nookie, but if a guv wants to enforce an existing right to work law, well wait just one goll dang minute, that's a problem!

[Adder]

Proper response? “F**k yourselves”

Judge ought to toss this out as frivolous and meritless.

[GeronL]

Suing her for... what exactly?

Her opinion?

[Mariner]

That’s one of the dumbest lawsuits I ever heard of.

[BenLurkin]

It's the antithesis of a reverse civil rights suit.

[Ingtar]

She should respond by asking how forcing someone to join a union is free speech or free association.

[MontaniSemperLiberi]

ping

[MsLady]

This is the kind of frivolous cr*p they were doing to Sarah in Alaska. One frivolous lawsuit after another.

[Hunton Peck]

“...and for our next trick, we’ll pull a new constitutional provision out of our....

(We learned this one from William O. Douglas)”

[tbpiper]

saying hostility toward unions and workers joining unions is unconstitutional

I'm sure in a living document they can find some place to wedge that one in, the morons.

[MsLady]

Exactly!!!!

[jakerobins]

Gov. Haley is a smart lady...She knows Unions kill buisness growth....Also that Boeing will leave SC just like it did Washington State if it gets Unionized....