Posted on 06/30/2014 7:53:07 AM PDT by rktman
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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They did that last week...
Yes. We must be especially vigilant when a rat is cornered.
It’s a good day to be a Christian and a conservative. I am going to enjoy this to the fullest.
Thanks for the reply.
Sorry, but Ginsburg didn’t write anything but her name on the opinion....she sleeps, I suspect, 14 hours a day with added naps in between....her leftard clerks scribbled together their cumulative rage at religious freedom and had Ruth Buzzi sign it.
Much like Thurgood Marshall near the end of his days....spending his time watching soap operas instead of studying cases.
Maybe Obama shouldn’t have “dissed” the SCOTUS at that early State of the Union address.
“Unions don’t have any place now. They are nothing more than extortion rackets. They don’t really care about the workers. All they want are dues to line their pockets and those of Democrat politicians.”
As proof, I give you card check.
W e have to pray for the health of Ginsburg for the next two years. I, personally don’t want obungle to select another SC Justice.
Allow me to present a counter point.
Just as the first amendment’s protection on freedom of religion incorporates freedom from religion (as in one can not be forced to support a religion if they do not wish) the first amendments freedom of assembly also incorporates freedom from assembly.
It is the freedom of assembly clause that protects the People from being forced to assemble (for the purpose of business) and prohibits the government from forcing people to purchase goods and services from a specific vendor. Likewise, and employee is assembling with a business for the purpose of wages. A union interferes with that right if it is a forced membership.
The unions that may have “had their place,” as you say (not that I agree with that fully) were not government employee unions. Govt. employees should NOT be allowed to unionize, and given federal (and state) labor laws, there should be no ultimate need for the unions.
Unions are strictly a fund raising mechanism for the Democratic party.
This is the beginning of the end for the teachers’ unions. It’s about time.
Public unions are illegal. They work for us the taxpayer. The SCOTUS got it right.
So is its significance overblown then? Or can other public employees now make the same claim?.... I think that would be importanter....
What was it, 5 to 4?
I realize that Rs do MESS UP...but not all the time. DEMONRAT occupants of the Oval Office ALWAYS give us liberal SCOTUS clowns.
Yes - I wonder if Willard would have nominated Sotomayor and Kagan? I kind of think not.
I am doing the dance of joy.
Seems Justice Roberts found his backbone. This is a big win for America. I read a few of the articles on Drudge and the liberals in the comments are squealing like pigs!!! That in itself is a reason to celebrate!!!
To hell with the unions. I am glad that this has happened.
It is frightening to me to see so many 5-4 ideologically divided decisions by the 9 robed ones.
I am surprised by this ruling as I think the unions had a valid point, all the works in a union shop benefit from what the union negotiates, unless non-union people are settling for less. Not that I am that big a fan of unions, but over time, mostly long ago, they had their place.
The problem is that your premise is wrong. Dead wrong.
This is not a “shop” situation, but the kind of SEIU sleaze they pulled in MI, WI and tried in MA a while back. This is a union raiding state aid to families with disabled and/or sick relatives for whom they provided care. There was no shop until the belly-crawling scumbags at SEIU sleazed through a law delcaring those receiving govt. assistance for disabled and/or sick relatives members of one — they even had the law in WI (ISTR) create an “agency” that their victims were “members” of. Most of the people thus screwed-over by the belly-crawling scumbags at SEIU didn’t even know it was happening.
This is nothing more than theft from the needy by the belly-crawling scumbags at SEIU.
I was in SEIU (briefly!) and I *KNOW* all they were interested in was raiding my wallet.
5 to 4 SCOTUS decisions and people here celebrate.
If Harry Reid keeps running the Senate and one of the five Justices that Vote our way dies, the next Obama Appointee will change the Court and these 5 to 4 Decisions will swing the other way for the next 20 Years.
Yet we have people here who will Vote for the Democrat because the Republican doesn’t meet their standards.
No matter, the Democrats will keep the Senate and the crap will continue until Hillary is sworn in to Office.
I’m not arguing the point, facts are facts, period.
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