Posted on 04/21/2012 11:35:49 PM PDT by Publius804
In a lawsuit against three Indiana government officials, a labor union alleged on Wednesday that its constitutional rights under the Thirteenth Amendment — which outlawed “slavery” and “involuntary servitude” — are violated whenever its members are forced to work alongside nonunion employees.
The International Union of Operating Engineers, whose members work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics and construction surveyors, sued Indiana’s governor, attorney general, and labor commissioner in February, alleging that the state’s “right to work” law is unconstitutional.
Indiana’s law prohibits employers from making union membership a condition of getting or keeping a job. The union’s February lawsuit claimed the law violated its members’ Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of “equal protection” under the law.
But an amended complaint filed on Wednesday added a Thirteenth Amendment claim as well. The new lawsuit suggests that when nonunion employees earn higher salaries and better benefits because of the union’s negotiation on behalf of its members, the union has been forced to work for those nonunion employees for free.
And being forced to work without compensation, the union suggested in its revised lawsuit, is slavery.
“In this case, the Defendants have exacted compulsory service and/or involuntary servitude from the Union through the combination of the passage of the Right to Work law and the existing federal requirement of the duty of fair representation,” the amended complaint reads.
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Put these morons on TV, let them try to explain this to the world with a straight face
LOL
Beyond unbelievable!
LOL
Mo’ bettah Idea!
Sue the Union for past damages for involuntary servitude to ~THEM~ in closed shops.
It should be filed as a Civil Rights case - (Larger possible awards and no taxes on the plaintiffs when they win.)
” The new lawsuit suggests that when nonunion employees earn higher salaries and better benefits because of the union’s negotiation on behalf of its members, the union has been forced to work for those nonunion employees for free.”
This is going to put John Semmens out of business. How do you parody stuff like this?
Can’t we just carpet bomb these vermin?
Ok, you’re fired! There, fixed your slavery problem.
Oh brother....
Unions are slave-masters? Who knew?
when will unions officially become a race, I mean they already act like and get treated like one
That is the main reason we need to defeat Obama is Judges.
If unions don’t like it, why don’t they just abandon the idea of being “exclusive representative” of all the employees in a bargaining unit?
Let them just represent their own members, and the employer can negotiate separately with those who choose not to belong.
Indiana’s law prohibits employers from making union membership a condition of getting or keeping a job. The union’s February lawsuit claimed the law violated its members’ Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of “equal protection” under the law.
This is just silly. The law is protecting workers paychecks from the unions!
And just think; these union drooling halfwits PAID some ash hole with a law degree to think that up!
Union thugs are such whiners. Grow up
Oh, I get it: Those poor Union members were kidnapped and no doubt, at the point of a gun, "FORCED" to work alongside nonunion employees.
You just can't make this sheet up!
This is progress folks!
As late a 10 years ago we wold never hve seen the more idiotic union socialists on TV because the mainstream whorenalists would have kept them from us so as to avoid hurting their agenda
but we need the public to see as much of them as possible
Why don,t the little cry baby socialists just go home then?
Even if they are not earning as much as the non union workers they are still getting more than they are worth.
The good thing about this is that this shows they have run out of any rational arguments to fight right to work laws.
The goal of unions is to kill all non-union jobs.
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