Worker Petitions Supreme Court To Strike Down Mandatory Union Dues

[corbe]

Worker Petitions Supreme Court To Strike Down Mandatory Union Dues

Suit seeks to overturn union-withdrawal windows

Graham Piro • May 25, 2021 5:00 pm

A railway worker is petitioning the Supreme Court to stop unions from forcing members and nonmembers to fund union political lobbying against their will.

The worker asks the Court to draw on its 2018 Janus decision, which barred public sector employers from mandatory union dues on First Amendment grounds. The petition, filed Tuesday, argues the 5-4 ruling did not go far enough in cracking down on union attempts to subvert right-to-work laws through mandatory dues deductions.

"This case is an ideal vehicle to resolve the exceptionally important question whether the First Amendment or the [Railway Labor Act] protects hundreds of thousands of railway and airline employees from having to opt out of subsidizing expressive associations’ political and ideological activities," the petition states.

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[Sled Dog]

Closed shops violate the Freedom of Assembly provision of the First Amendment.   

It also violates the company owners' right to operate their property as they deem fit.   Whose property is it, if the owners cannot determine who is on their staff?

And since the goonions use a large amount of the dues forcibly collected for Rodent political functions, mandatory dues also violates the workers' First Amendment free speech rights.

Roberts will vote to reject this case.

[Sled Dog]

What should be done re: goonion dues.

The state, local and federal governments should not be in the business of being the collections agent for the goonions.   A government goonion worker can write his own checks or allow the goonion direct debiting from his personal banking account to cover dues.

As for real workers, first, nobody should EVER be required to join a goonion, and goonion membership or lack thereof should never be a consideration for promotions, though it certainly should weigh heavily in any layoffs a company is contemplating.   

Real workers should be able to pay their goonion dues by check or credit card.  No real worker should ever allow a goonion access to their bank routing code and account numbers, of course.

Goonion dues should be itemized to show things like "community outreach" (Democrat payola), "insurance", etc, and the real worker will naturally be able to decline to pay for goonion actions that counter his rights as an American, like any dime directed towards a Rodent.

[The_Reader_David]

Closed shops violate the Freedom of Assembly provision of the First Amendment.   

It also violates the company owners' right to operate their property as they deem fit.   

The gap in your argument is that the owners are free to enter into a contract with a union agreeing to hire and employ only members of the union. 

[catfish1957]

The gap in your argument is that the owners are free to enter into a contract with a union agreeing to hire and employ only members of the union.

Your argument fails to realize that these agreements have typically 70+ years of history, and intertwined with other facilities, and with that entrenched level of power, weld a lot of leverage to disrupt company operations.  Your thinking that companies can simply flip a switch and deep 6 the Union is highly flawed.

[corbe]

   Another FDR CF.

[Sled Dog]

The gap in your argument is that the owners are free to enter into a contract with a union agreeing to hire and employ only members of the union.

That's not a gap.

No company in their right minds would do that without extortionary pressures from violent goonions who are allocated a monopoly on violence by the Supreme Court.

Want to know what companies should have the freedom to do when a goonion goes on strike?

Hire new workers.

What to know what the companies should be able to do when the goonion decides to stop striking and go back to their old jobs?

Say, "sorry, that position is filled."

Want to know what goonions should be able to do to people who cross picket lines?   

Nothing.

The company does not belong to the workers.   This is America.

Want to know what happens when goonions succeed in their goal of owning a country?

Venezuela.