Thursday, June 28, 2018

Labor union states live on

WASHINGTON California’s public employee unions were handed a serious blow in a Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that forbids them from collecting fees from workers who benefit from their representation but do not want to join them.
 In a 5 to 4 ruling, the court determined that public sector unions' so-called "fair share" fees violate "the free speech rights of nonmembers by compelling them to subsidize private speech on matters of substantial public concern." 
 The decision in Janus vs. AFSCME effectively makes California a “right to work” state, ending a 41-year precedent that allowed public sector unions to levy these fees on workers who don’t belong to labor organizations.
Not quite.

The calizuela can and will apply a worker tax.  That is perfectly legal.   Those taxes  pass through a government agency which passes the money on to a worker organization from the agency list. The worker chooses the worker organization, With a bit of Due Process we allow free individuals to organize worker organizations and get on the list.

Perfectly fair, it favors workers finding an organization on an equal basis. Perfectly legal, no different than a business or professional license.  

Due process is served by allowing free entry and exit of worker organizations. Workers retain choice. Legislature retains is right to make law.  The unions have to compete for the government handouts, and public sector unions will do about as well as they do now.

The good news, state legislatures will have to be explicit, they favor unions, private and ublic.  Legislatures willing to put taxes on workers to make that point.  In calizuela the politicians may be too weakassed to try it.

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