Hobby Lobby: A new tool for crushing workplace unionization?

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And away we go, down the slippery slope towards theocracy. Think this was just about birth control? Guess again. The women of the SC knew better.

MSNBC
Hobby Lobby: A new tool for crushing workplace unionization?
By Ned Resnikoff
July 15, 2014

A little-known religious exemption to United States labor law may have just become extremely important, thanks to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Hobby Lobby.

By declaring that “closely held” corporations may hold religious beliefs, the court may have provided businesses with a new tool for crushing workplace unionization drives. In addition to declaring themselves exempt from contraception mandates and non-discrimination laws, religious employers may soon be able to argue for an exemption from collective bargaining laws.

“All you need is one employer saying, ‘My religious beliefs tell me I shouldn’t collectively bargain,’” said Alex Luchenitser, associate legal director for Americans United for Separation of Church and State. If an employer takes the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to court and uses that argument, it could set the table for a major court battle over the future of union rights in nominally religious workplaces.

Religious primary and secondary schools are already exempt from collective bargaining rules, thanks to the 1979 Supreme Court case NLRB v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago. In a 6-3 decision, the court ruled that the NLRB does not have jurisdiction over schools “operated by a church to teach both religious and secular subjects.” As a result, schools operated by the Catholic Bishop of Chicago were under no obligation to recognize employee unions, no matter the circumstances. Putting religious schools under the jurisdiction of the NLRB, the court reasoned, would present “a significant risk of infringement of Religion Clauses of the First Amendment.”...

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1. But do you think Hobby Lobby will go to heaven

Since it holds religious beliefs and there would be no other motive to hold them HL must expect that doncha think? I actually cannot think of anything more absurd that the SCROTUS (Supreme Court Republicans of The United States) has ever approved of.