Posts Tagged ‘Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association’
Mark 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 MoreUnion Militants Chortle about Justice Scalia’s Death
Union bosses love collecting forced union dues and fees from employees, and loathe people who get in their way, or even signal they might get in the way. Â That’s why,…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet March 11, 2016
Shock: Simon Poll Finds Majority of Illinois Voters Support Right-To-Work huffingtonpost.com, March 10, 2016 The poll also found more than 60 percent of respondents favor so-called “right-to-work” laws that prohibit…
Read MoreGovernment Union Bosses’ Gloating Is Premature
Just a few short weeks ago, in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s hearing of oral arguments of a landmark case challenging forced financial support of government unions on…
Read MoreFederally-Imposed Forced Union Dues Are Unconstitutional
More than 70 years ago, when Steele v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad came before the U.S. Supreme Court, there was no federal law prohibiting race-based job discrimination perpetrated by employers or…
Read MoreWhy We Should End Compulsory Union Dues
In her own words, Rebecca Friedrichs explains why the Supreme Court should end compulsory unionism for all, on cnn.com. Rebecca Friedrichs is the lead plaintiff in Friedrichs v. CTA. The Supreme…
Read MoreCan Forced-Unionism Apologists Handle the Truth?
In an op-ed published this week regarding a landmark legal case about to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court, Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California, Irvine School…
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 MoreMandatory Bar Doesn’t Aim to Prevent ‘Individual Attorneys’ From Getting ‘Better Terms Than Those Obtainable by the Group’
As I discussed last week in a blog post on this site (see the first link below), Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a potentially landmark case scheduled to be heard by…
Read MoreSouthworth Precedent Not Helpful For Forced-Union-Fee Proponents in Friedrichs Case
Today more than 20 states have laws on the books explicitly requiring all or some types of front-line public workers to pay dues or fees to a union they may…
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