Posts Tagged ‘First Amendment’
Mark Janus Files Motion to Rehear Ruling Denying Refund of Seized Forced Union Fees
Washington, DC (November 19, 2019) – Today, attorneys representing Mark Janus are petitioning the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals for rehearing en banc in the continuation of Janus v. American Federation of State,…
Read MoreQuick Points Mark Janus’ Attorney Provided in Oral Arguments
The last week of February ended with the gaveled submission of the United States Supreme Court case Janus v. AFSCME. The Petitioner Mark Janus asked the country’s Highest Court to…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work News December 29, 2017
Right-to-work attorney challenging SEIU 1000 dues collection Jackson Observer Online, December 27, 2017 A right-to-work attorney acknowledged in court on Monday that he’s trying to “change the law†with a…
Read MoreMark Herring Sided With Big Labor Against Individual Constitutional Rights
For 70 years, Virginia’s Right to Work law has prohibited the firing of employees for refusal to join or pay dues and fees to a union they never invited and…
Read MoreIf Teachers Have a Constitutional Right to Disagree Publicly With Union Negotiators, They Also Have a Right Not to Bankroll the Union
Among the many brazen power grabs, successful and unsuccessful, Big Labor has assayed over the years, a so-called “unfair labor practice” complaint filed by teacher union bosses against the City…
Read MoreThe ‘Facile Generalization That There Is No Constitutionally Protected Right to Public Employment Is to Obscure the Issue’
In their November 6 merits brief in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association (accessible at the first link below), a team of government union lawyers led by David Frederick of the…
Read MoreFederal Union Lawyers Rediscover Freedom of Non-Association
By Repudiating Their Monopoly Privileges, Union Officials Can Restore Their Own Ability to Choose Who May Join A little more than three decades ago, U.S. Supreme Court Justice William Brennan’s…
Read MoreFreedom to Bankroll or Not Bankroll a Union ‘Protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution’
As has been widely reported in media coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 30 ruling in Harris v. Quinn, the 37-year-old High Court precedent that first upheld the constitutionality…
Read MoreFor Unions, Labor Day Is About Grabbing More Power
Mark Mix president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, writes in investors.com Labor Day editorial:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Most Americans realize that Labor Day is about celebrating workers, not…
Read More‘Shroom Producers Get 1st Amendment Rights, not U.S. employees
First Amendment Equally Protects Rights of Independent-Minded Workers, Business Owners  Dissenting Workers Should Be Free to Refuse to Bankroll ‘Messages . . . Favored by a Majority’  (Download Fact…
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