Supreme Court Poised to Deal Huge Blow to Unions

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The only issue here, to me, is this: Those employees who choose to join the union should not have to see any of their dues go to represent those who choose not to. Agency fees have always been coupled to DFR; the decoupling needs to be complete.

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I am forced at my place of employment to be in a union that basically does nothing but collect their dues (private sector). I have got a whopping 1.6% increase per year the past 8 years. After union dues, that drops to almost zero. After increases in healthcare costs (and I work in a hospital lab), I have went backwards. Someone tell me how this is a strong FREE labor market. I am basically a slave to a union that took over after a I was hired 30 years ago. I did much better before forced to join the union.

Even FDR understood bargaining with public unions was a no-no

More: President Eisenhower recognized that “Workers have a right to organize into unions and to bargain collectively with their employers. And a strong, free labor movement is an invigorating and necessary part of our industrial society.”

Would you prefer union bashing from FDR?
112 – Letter on the Resolution of Federation of Federal Employees Against Strikes in Federal Service
August 16, 1937

My dear Mr. Steward:

As I am unable to accept your kind invitation to be present on the occasion of the Twentieth Jubilee Convention of the National Federation of Federal Employees, I am taking this method of sending greetings and a message.

Reading your letter of July 14, 1937, I was especially interested in the timeliness of your remark that the manner in which the activities of your organization have been carried on during the past two decades “has been in complete consonance with the best traditions of public employee relationships.” Organizations of Government employees have a logical place in Government affairs.

The desire of Government employees for fair and adequate pay, reasonable hours of work, safe and suitable working conditions, development of opportunities for advancement, facilities for fair and impartial consideration and review of grievances, and other objectives of a proper employee relations policy, is basically no different from that of employees in private industry. Organization on their part to present their views on such matters is both natural and logical, but meticulous attention should be paid to the special relationships and obligations of public servants to the public itself and to the Government.

All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters.

Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable. It is, therefore, with a feeling of gratification that I have noted in the constitution of the National Federation of Federal Employees the provision that “under no circumstances shall this Federation engage in or support strikes against the United States Government.”

I congratulate the National Federation of Federal Employees the twentieth anniversary of its founding and trust that the convention will, in every way, be successful.
Very sincerely yours,
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Yes, I had an article up from September when they agreed to hear it. It took 4 months from the announcement just to hear the case. I have been following this story for a long time. Had Scalia not died, this would already be resolved. I hope the unions have to pay back the money they stole.

With some exceptions, most primaries are party specific.

Hammeringtruth….how about you give us your PRO public union argument vs. whining about Mish stance?

Public unions should take a look at what happened to the United Mine Workers of America and realize that unions are, for the most part, finished.

More union bashing from Mish.

“I expect the court to decide against the AFSCME” I expect the court to decide in FAVOR of AFSCME. I hope to get a pleasant surprise when my expectation proves wrong.

Public unions are the largest campaign money contributors of all time. And they give 99-1 to democrats. In fact, without their support, a Democrat would have zero chance of winning a primary in any large American city or state.