Supreme Court, Another Win For Free Speech: Unions Lose

[seer]

About time...

Supreme Court deals major financial blow to nation's public employee unions

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...ons/590440002/

This is a case about whether government employees who are represented by a union to which they do not belong can be required to pay a fee to cover the costs of collective bargaining. The plaintiff in this case, an Illinois state employee, argued that having to pay the fees violates the First Amendment. Today the Court agreed, ruling for the employee and against the union.

http://live.scotusblog.com/Event/Liv...__June_27_2018

[Mountain Man]

Wow... another 5-4 ruling. Thank goodness for Trump's Supreme Court pick.

[Cow Poke]

This one made total sense, though our liberals will be crying crocodile tears.

[seer]

This one made total sense, though our liberals will be crying crocodile tears.

It is a clear win for free speech! And it will hit the Democrats hard in the wallet...

[Cow Poke]

It is a clear win for free speech! And it will hit the Democrats hard in the wallet...

And, let's be clear: The unions don't give a flying flip anymore about "the workers", but about their own financial fortunes and political agendas. They just manage to keep sucking a whole bunch of ignorant people into believing it's all about "the workers".

[Sparko]

Don't these unions see the irony in trying to force employees into unions or make them pay even if they are not in the union? Their purpose is supposed to be to stop employers from bullying and taking advantage of employees. Now they want to do it instead.

[Mountain Man]

Don't these unions see the irony in trying to force employees into unions or make them pay even if they are not in the union? Their purpose is supposed to be to stop employers from bullying and taking advantage of employees. Now they want to do it instead.

Of course they don't see the irony. That's been their standard operating procedure for decades.

[seer]

From what I am hearing the Democratic party will lose tens of millions of dollars. It is all good!

[Sparko]

Unions just lost a lot of their political influence.

[seer]

Unions just lost a lot of their political influence.

Which means that liberals just lost a lot of their political influence...

[rogue06]

And, let's be clear: The unions don't give a flying flip anymore about "the workers", but about their own financial fortunes and political agendas. They just manage to keep sucking a whole bunch of ignorant people into believing it's all about "the workers".

Public sector unions contribute heavily to Democrat politicians. Now the unions won't be able to force those who don't want anything to do with them and likely disagree with their politics to give them money to funnel to the Democrats

[Cow Poke]

And if the union is so wonderful for the workers, let them sell themselves in the marketplace of ideas, and actually get voted in fair and square, rather than sleaze and squeeze!

[Cow Poke]

I can't wait for our resident authority on unions to come tell us why this is such a horrible thing.

[Terraceth]

Wow... another 5-4 ruling. Thank goodness for Trump's Supreme Court pick.

On what do you base your assumption that Merrick Garland would have ruled differently?

[seer]

On what do you base your assumption that Merrick Garland would have ruled differently?

Odds are he would have...