Posted on 05/19/2022 1:54:04 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
National Guard members on state duty can now unionize, thanks to a new Justice Department agreement. A 1978 law forbids military personnel on federal duty from unionizing, but labor unions in Connecticut filed a lawsuit against the DOJ and Attorney General Merrick Garland seeking the right to collective bargaining for National Guard members on duty ordered by the governor. DOJ settled the case on Tuesday. (Federal News Network)
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Ask the battalion political officer. Used to be S1-S4. S5 (PAO) came in about halfway through my time in. Now we’ve got an S6 (shop steward) at the Bn level.
Well, I imagine if you don’t like the order, you go to your shop steward and tell him about your grievance. Then he files a complaint with the union, who files a complaint with the labor arbitration board, who then calls your officer’s superior officer to notify him that him and your officer will be required to attend 3-6 arbitration sessions over the next several months before they can take any retaliatory action against you.
Something like that...
I read this as an un-elected government official, can sign an agreement that is directly in opposition to law .... and .... nothing?
This should be tossed by the first judge that sees it. One party comes into power and has their appointed idiot sign a whole bunch of agreements that push their agenda! Laws then change without elections.
This is bad precedent for either side.
When you see a ruling like this you know the fix is in.
The government wanted to allow unions but know the legislature would never pass a law allowing it so they get sued and then settle.
This is how much of the social changes in our society has been made over the past 70 years.
The plaintiff and government working together to undermine our society.
Look up the Dicke Act, 1916 National Defense Act and the 1933 National Guard Mobilization Act. They’re not really the state militia of old.
All done for expediency and force modernization. The States routinely refused to spend the money and maintain professionalism in the state militias. (They were embarrassing in the Spanish-American War!) One could argue that that all those acts are of dubious constitutionality. Another example of the states relinquishing responsibility hence sovereignty, maybe it was necessary.
“National Guard members on state duty can now unionize, thanks to a new Justice Department agreement.”
National Guard members on state duty can now unionize, thanks to a new INUSTICE Department agreement.
There fixed it
Utterly tarded........
Garlic Wreath is an infiltrated marxist domestic enemy of the Republic imho.
The unionization of state employees generally is a matter for each state to decide, and states can forbid their employees from unionizing. So I'm curious as to how this decision fits with that general rule. Maybe those states didn't have such a prohibition in effect, so when the feds said their prohibition doesn't apply, it's now open in those states unless and until they pass a law that says otherwise.
A union might prevent such abuses as a Democrat governor ordering National Guard members to work in hospitals to cover for missing staff that the governor fired for not getting the Jim Jones Jab.
10 U.S. Code § 976 - Membership in military unions, organizing of military unions, and recognition of military unions prohibited.
Seems pretty clear to me. State use of federal troops is still covered by the UCMJ.
At some point, we just have to turn off the Leftist tit to
suck from.
Public unions should be outlawed.
Also: "What could possibly go right?"
Zip... Nada... Zero...
Are we going to get these azzes out of office soon enough?????
No, it’s already too late.
Are we going to get these azzes out of office soon enough?????
No, it’s already too late.
Not gonna lie, being able to picket instead of taking turns sweeping the motor pool all Friday on a MUTA6 because the BC has his head in his ass, or getting a contract signed to be released before 1800 every Sunday sounds kind of nice.
Didn’t work for the nurses
True but they were already in place. Unionizing in the Guard might help guardsmen who are called up by corrupt governors by saying no before they get pulled into the hospital to backfill those the governor illegally fired.
The Soviet Union had those.
политический руководитель (Political Officer)
They would ensure that you were sufficiently loyal to the Motherland. If you were not, bad things would befall you.
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