Friday, April 8, 2016

Judicial error in Wisconsin

The state court ruled that unions can not be prohibited from  mandated deductions from workers,   I have news, no one can take mandated payments from  workers in Wisconsin, except by voluntary contract or sheriff's order.  If the KKK wanted automatic deductions from workers' paychecks, then  the worker has to agree; same rule holds for unions,  The issue is already covered by contract law, the union complaint is moot.  The judge erred, likely a Harvard graduate.
MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A Wisconsin judge on Friday struck down the state’s right-to-work law, saying the measure is unconstitutional by banning unions from charging fees to non-union workers for certain services, court papers showed.
Dane County Judge William Foust decided in favor of International Association of Machinists, United Steelworkers and the AFL-CIO, which filed a lawsuit against the state, arguing the law passed in 2015 by Republican lawmakers violates the state constitution.
Before the right-to-work law was passed in Wisconsin, workers who chose not to be a member of a union at their workplace were still charged a fee to cover collective bargaining, contract administration and other services.
The law prohibits these fees and, as a result, allows the “taking of the plaintiff’s property without just compensation in violation” of the state constitution, Foust wrote in his decision.

Should Walker take this to the Supremes?  Well those bozos already fouled voluntary corporate contract, and then we have Sotomayor and Kragan.  But this is simple ignorance of legal basics, no lawyer can be that dumb, except a Harvard grad.

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