The Supreme Court just stuck a knife in public sector unions
The system is rigged.
IAN MILLHISER JUN 27, 2018, 10:08 AM
About two years ago, Justice Samuel Alito appeared poised to deliver a long-awaited victory to the Republican Party. Alito, who authored two opinions targeting public sector unions, seemed to have the five votes he needed to strike a major blow to organized labor’s finances, causing many unions to wither. It would have been a coup for the GOP — serving both the party’s ideological goals and undermining a major source of Democratic organizing power in the process.
Then Justice Antonin Scalia died, Republicans lost their majority on the Supreme Court, and this broader attack on public sector unions appeared dead.
That was then. This is now.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court voted along party lines to effectively defund many public sector unions. This outcome was made possible thanks to Senate Republicans, who held open Scalia’s vacant seat for a year until a man who lost the popular vote by 2,864,974 votes could fill it with his own pick. The Court’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME is a tribute to American undemocracy.
The holding of Janus is that anti-union workers have a constitutional right to get something for nothing from the union that represents them and their colleagues.
https://thinkprogress.org/gorsuch-knifes-unions-a8769c908b29/
I truly hope that union members in a union pass a by-law to strip all of those that do not want to pay dues, then your on your own when it comes to pay raises, health care , seniority.......................your a double breasting scab your on your own..............
FUCK YOU SCABS................
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