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Posted on 06/30/2014 7:13:31 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Supreme Court says public sector unions can't collect fees from home health care workers who object to being affiliated with a union.
The justices on Monday said collecting the fees violates the First Amendment rights of workers who are not union members....
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This will kick the public sector unions right in the nuts!
Yea USSC!
5-4 is pathetic but I’ll take it!!!
The four libs were the desenters.
I thought I heard on the radio that PART-TIME members COULD NOT be compelled, but FULL-TIME workers COULD. Did anyone else hear that?
YES!
Terrible false headline.
Only applies to certain “partial” public employees.
It’s a “partial” win, which is better than any loss though.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/13pdf/11-681_j426.pdf
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The quicker they die off the better. A friendif mine is in a union. They got a new contract 15 months ago, the union has yet to actually provide their members with a copy. They keep blaming the printing company for a “printing error”
SCOTUS ruled on the specific Illinois program at issue ... unions can still collect dues from other public workers.
This is NOT a real victory against public employee unions.
Another win for the good guys.
thank God.
So if the union negotiates a raise in their conract is the non-member exempt from the raise?
No, I wouldn’t think so. In right-to-work states the union negotiates for all employees and non-members are not paid differently.
The Obama Justice Department gets another loss as they had weighed in on the side of the public sector unions/state of Illinois. Solicitor General Verilli argued in an amicus curiae brief in 2012 that the USSC shouldn’t even hear the case.
http://www.justice.gov/osg/briefs/2012/2pet/6invit/2011-0681.pet.ami.inv.pdf
Illinois is not a right-to-work state.
Good news bump
Is it a union printing shop?
That's the only way that a case gets heard by the Supreme Court. The are the Supreme "Appellate" Court.
"What justifies the agency fee ... is the fact that the State compels the union to promote and protect the interests of nonmembers in “negotiating and admin- istering a collective-bargaining agreement and representing the in- terests of employees in settling disputes and processing grievances.” Lehnert, supra, at 556. That rationale has little application here, where Illinois law requires that all PAs receive the same rate of pay and the union has no authority with respect to a PA’s grievances against a customer.
Hard to believe it was ever a question
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