West Virginia’s Supreme Court of Appeals struck down a lower court’s anti-Right to Work injunction.
Last year, the House of Delegates passed Right to Work legislation in West Virginia. Right to Work prevents companies from requiring employees to join a union and pay union dues.
An appeal from the Kanawha County circuit court, however, ignored state and federal case law to grant a temporary injunction to unions seeking to overturn Right to Work.
West Virginia’s AFL-CIO, a collaboration of more than 575 unions, “joined together for the common cause of fairness for all workers” according to its website, filed the lawsuit against Right to Work.
Because workers are not forced to pay union dues as a requirement for employment but unions must represent all workers at their place of employment, “The wisdom, desirability, and fairness of a law are political questions to be resolved in the legislature. Those decisions may only be challenged in the court of public opinion and the ballot box, not before the judiciary.”
AFL-CIO argued that Right to Work deprives them of dues from workers who will benefit from union activities anyway.
The lower court’s block on Right to Work was dismissed, though, by the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
Read more at:
http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/west-virginia-supreme-court-appeals-issues-ruling-right-work
