We won!

[Omaha Steve]

When you stood with us to tell the Senate to protect collective bargaining for working families, they listened.

Because of your work, the RAISE Act failed today, with 54 brave Senators holding the line for workers' rights to bargain for contracts that prevent arbitrary decisions about wages.

In solidarity,

Mary Kay Henry
President, SEIU

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. ALL RIGHT!

[freshwest]

2. +54!

[rhett o rick]

3. why didnt the Repukes filibuster? nm

[bigbrother05]

7. That only works to stop a bill

The Dems had the votes to defeat, so it got a simple up or down and it lost.

[rhett o rick]

13. I get it. Thanks. It was their bill and they couldnt get a simple majority. nm

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. Marco Rubio introduced this

So he has a high profile loss on his record.

[rurallib]

5. I regret I can only rec this once

[Omaha Steve]

6. This doesn't happen to the labor group often

THANK YOU!!!!

[JNelson6563]

9. Omaha Steve

I really appreciate your tireless efforts to keep us up to date on what's going on in the world of organized labor. Thank you for posting all the great information you share with us!



Julie

[lonestarnot]

8. wOOdamnwhoooooooo!

Excellent!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Good to hear.

But let's be vigilante. The "Right to work for slave wages" people will be back

Mark Stocker
Member in good standing
IBEW Local 89

[russ1943]

11. Thank you.

Good on ya!

[Kalidurga]

12. Will this make Repugs think?

Ha ha I kid I kid, I know it won't.

[Omaha Steve]

14. (More info) Are Public-Sector Union “Shops” Unconstitutional?

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2012_06/are_publicsector_union_shops_u038097.php

Like most everybody else, I was focused this morning on the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court would announce its decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. It didn’t. But it announced another decision that in its own way might be as ominous as an invalidation of the individual mandate.

In Knox v. SEIU, a 7-2 majority of the Court made a narrow ruling on a public-sector union’s failure to provide an “opt-out” for “emergency” dues charged to non-members that went for an unexpected political expenditure. But the five conservative members of the Court went a lot further (though the specific decision turned on procedural grounds) holding that an “opt-in” should have been required, using language that could theoretically lead to an invalidation of “agency shop” agreements involving public-sector employees, where nonmembers can be required to pay fees to avoid a “free-rider” appropriation of the benefits of collective bargaining.

TAP’s Garrett Epps offered a thought-provoking instant analysis of where the decision might lead:

The new rule would impose substantial administrative costs on the union, and reduce the amount it collects. But more significantly, the majority’s rationale would seem to apply to all agency payments by non-members. And indeed, language in the opinion suggests that the majority thinks the whole idea of agency fees is a violation of the First Amendment. “[C] compulsory fees constitute a form of compelled speech and association that imposes a ‘significant impingement on First Amendment rights,’” the Court said, quoting an earlier case. “Our cases to date have tolerated this ‘impingement,’ and we do not revisit today whether the Court’s former cases have given adequate recognition to the critical First Amendment rights at stake.”

FULL story at link.

Ed Kilgore is a contributing writer to the Washington Monthly. He is is managing editor for The Democratic Strategist, a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, and a Special Correspondent for The New Republic.

[SunSeeker]

18. And yet it is perfectly constitutional for Corps to "speak" for shareholders

Apparently it is only "compelled speech" when a duly-elected union head speaks on behalf of union members.

[bvar22]

15. Thank YOU!!!

I sincerely hope that THIS victory will be the catalyst that turns around the 40 year erosion
of LABOR & Working Class Rights (Human Rights)!

The period that produced the largest, fastest growing, wealthiest, most Upwardly Mobile Working Class the World has ever seen
was the period when American UNIONS were the strongest.

Coincidence?
I think not.

[font color=firebrick size=5][center]"When we all do better,
we ALL do better![/font][font size=3 color=firebrick]
--- Paul Wellstone[/font][/center]
[center][/font]
[font size=1]photo by bvar22
Shortly before Sen Wellstone was killed[/center][/font]

[font size=5 color=firebrick]Solidarity![/font]

[patrice]

16. Oh god, that's good, Steve!!

cryin' happy here!

[SunSeeker]

17. K&R

[cachukis]

19. Dug

[limpyhobbler]

20. Nice to win one but,

we avoided losing a protection that has been on the books for 75 years. We didn't actually gain anything.

Still good though.

[Individualism]

21. Repeal Taft Hartley Act