Posts Tagged ‘U.S. Supreme Court’
Metro Union Bosses Accused of Ignoring Janus Rights, Still Forcing Dues in Nation’s Capital
It’s been more than four months since Right to Work staff attorney Bill Messenger led a legal team and argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Illinois civil…
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 MoreJudge William Foust Either Disingenuous or Ignorant Regarding Union Monopoly Bargaining
Nearly a month after it was issued, union officials and their allies in the media and academia are still vigorously applauding Dane County Circuit Judge William Foust’s April 8 decision…
Read MoreForced Fees For Harmful Union ‘Representation’ Upheld, 4-4
In a commentary published on CNS NEWS (see the link below to read the whole thing), I point out that, in a just-resolved Supreme Court case challenging the constitutionality of forced…
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 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 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 More‘Overall Success of Progressive Politics’ Is No Concern of Public Labor Policy
Rock-ribbed proponents of the American employee’s personal freedom to join or not a join a union and dyed-in-the-wool advocates of compulsory unionism alike are anxiously awaiting the outcome of the…
Read MoreFirst Amendment Protects a Public Servant’s Freedom Not to Join — a Labor Union
Forty-five years ago this February, a federal court overturned North Carolina statutory provisions restricting municipal employees’ right to join, aid and assist labor organizations, finding them to be “an abridgment…
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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