Supreme court rules against unions

Good day all. This is the last day of the current Supreme Court session and two more rulings have come out. Both are major ones. The first one to come out was the challenge against mandatory union dues for non-union members.

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court has ruled that workers can’t be forced to pay dues to a union. Here are some of the details from Associated Press:

The Supreme Court dealt a blow to public sector unions Monday, ruling that thousands of home health care workers in Illinois cannot be required to pay fees that help cover the union’s costs of collective bargaining.

In a 5-4 split along ideological lines, the justices said the practice violates the First Amendment rights of nonmembers who disagree with the positions that unions take.

I am not at all surprised that the Marxist wing of the Supreme Court was all in favor of forcing people into Unions. Historically, they have backed the power of the state over the rights of the individual for decades. Now what is this going to do to the unions?

The ruling is a setback for labor unions that have bolstered their ranks – and bank accounts – in Illinois and other states by signing up hundreds of thousands of in-home care workers. It could lead to an exodus of members who will have little incentive to pay dues if nonmembers don’t have to share the burden of union costs.

This all started when the governor of Illinois, (I can’t recall if he is serving time or not. Probably is) mandated that all home healthcare providers had to pay the unions and started deducting money from the checks they were getting. This was nothing more then a payoff to the public sector unions at the expense of people who needed the money to take care of sick family members.

That was another thing. The people forced to pay this money were generally individual taking care of their own sick family members. Taking that money out caused hardship for them.

The workers argue they are not government employees capable of being unionized in the traditional sense. They are different, they say, because they work in people’s homes, not on government property, and are not supervised by other state employees.

The ruling is obviously a lot more detailed then I’m going into here. One thing that will happen is a repeat of what happened in Wisconsin when Governor Walker was able to get through a law that removed the automatic deductions from state worker paychecks and allowed workers to leave unions. Several union locals collapsed and went bankrupt. Several saw all their members quit and the only ones left were the union locals management teams. With no money, they were out of a job. Without a doubt, this is going to break a few unions and frankly, it’s about time. Unions long ago outlived their usefulness.

Next, Hobby Lobby and Obamacare.

Thatisall

~The Angry Webmaster~

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