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The Dems lose another big one.
Topic Started: Jun 27 2018, 10:40 PM (53 Views)
Berton
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Supreme Court deals big setback to labor unions


WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government workers can't be forced to contribute to labor unions that represent them in collective bargaining, dealing a serious financial blow to organized labor.

The justices are scrapping a 41-year-old decision that had allowed states to require that public employees pay some fees to unions that represent them, even if the workers choose not to join.

The 5-4 decision fulfills a longtime wish of conservatives to get rid of the so-called fair share fees that non-members pay to unions in roughly two dozen states. The court ruled that the laws violate the First Amendment by compelling workers to support unions they may disagree with.

"States and public-sector unions may no longer extract agency fees from nonconsenting employees," Justice Samuel Alito said in his majority opinion for the court's five conservative justices.

President Donald Trump weighed in minutes after the decision was handed down, while Alito still was reading a summary of it from the bench.

"Big loss for the coffers of the Democrats!" Trump said in a tweet.......

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Jim Miller
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They are way late on that one. If they would have done that fifty years ago I could have saved a lot of money.
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And would not have been politicly misrepresented.

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Zackly!
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After I retired from my real job, I went to work as City Engineer for my little town. The union came in from St Louis and organized our public works grunts. All was fine and dandy for the union until the City refused to withhold union dues from their paychecks. The union stewards had to go around personally and collect the dues themselves. It was comical to watch. The union died fortunately.lol
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Personal choice is the key. Some want to support another to represent them and others don't. Forcing somebody to pay for something they don't want is unwarranted in most cases. This reminds me of the Obamacare mandate, it went bye bye too.
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