Scott Walker’s right-to-work law struck down
A court says Scott Walker’s right-to-work law violates the Constitution.
Click here for reuse options!Three unions filed the lawsuit last year shortly after Walker signed the bill into law. Right-to-work laws prohibit businesses and unions from reaching agreements that require all workers, not just union members, to pay union dues. Twenty-four other states have such laws.
The unions argued that Wisconsin’s law was an unconstitutional seizure of union property since unions now must extend benefits to workers who don’t pay dues. Dane County Circuit Judge William Foust agreed.
He said the law amounts to an unconstitutional governmental taking of union funds without compensation since under the law unions must represent people who don’t pay dues. That presents an existential threat to unions, Foust wrote.
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StoneyCurtisll April 8th, 2016 at 19:03
This is the classic republican wanting something for nothing…
They want to destroy unions by requiring them to give all the union benefits to workers who do not pay dues…
clemans April 8th, 2016 at 23:20
they want to break unions by defunding them……if you get union benefits by not paying for them, no reason to pay dues, then unions fade away.
Dwendt44 April 9th, 2016 at 01:30
And those benefits fade away once the unions are gone.
clemans April 9th, 2016 at 06:56
which is why so many jobs disappeared and wages have been stagnant.
Thank you to union members, past and present…..you got kids as young as 6 out of unsafe fire traps called factories, working up to 18 hours a day OUT of the factories and into schools!
Comicus April 9th, 2016 at 00:29
No, their goal is to eliminate all those benefits.
Mike April 8th, 2016 at 19:36
As a member of a union I hear lots of talk about union dues and how unfair they are…I remind other educators that only 3 miles from us is s Christian College that pays 60% of what we make…they pay 50% of their healthcare, we pay 0…They can’t let their sick days accrue for more than a year…and they have no sabbatical leave to further their education…
I’m glad my union fought for me.
Larry Schmitt April 8th, 2016 at 19:49
And that’s exactly what we would expect from a “Christian” college.
Tim Coolio April 8th, 2016 at 20:26
WHETHER YOU ARE UNION OR NON UNION, REMEMBER THE
REASONS TO THANK A LABOR UNION:
All breaks at work including lunch breaks
Weekends off on most jobs
Paid vacations
Family medical leave act
Sick leave
Min. wage laws
Civil rights act
8 hour work days
40 hour work week
Overtime pay
Child labor laws
OSHA occupational safety & health act
Workers comp.
Unemployment ins.
Pensions
Workplace safety standards and regulations
Employer health care ins.
Collective bargaining rights for employees
Wrongful termination laws
Age discrimination in employment act of 1967
Whistleblower protection laws
Vets employment and training services
Compensation increases and evaluations (raises)
Sexual harassment laws
Americans with disabilities act
Holiday pay
Employer dental life and vision ins.
Privacy rights
Pregnancy and parental leave
Military leave
The right to strike
Equal pay acts
Laws ending sweatshops in the USA
UNION WORKERS DONT QUIT……..THEY RETIRE!
clemans April 8th, 2016 at 23:18
thank you for sticking up for unions…..they created the middle class
Dwendt44 April 9th, 2016 at 01:28
Unions and Democrats supported those ideas and more.
The Bush recession would have been a real depression had it not been for those programs and regulations.
halfwayin April 9th, 2016 at 08:00
Nice post Tim.
It amazes me that so many American workers are not only willing to accept employers (public and private) treating them like third world workers, they applaud it.
Dwendt44 April 9th, 2016 at 01:29
And they demand you teach religious clap trap instead of science and real history.
Frank Foster April 9th, 2016 at 02:37
I am a teacher and I agree 100%!
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labman57 April 8th, 2016 at 21:33
Walker campaigned on this law, proposing it to be the model for federal anti-union legislation.
I would argue that the judicial ruling is far more likely to become the standard policy for the nation as a whole.
Foundryman April 8th, 2016 at 22:53
Hope so, but this ruling is from a circuit court judge, hard to say what WI supremes will say, since they are further right than Gohmert, Cruz and Bachmann combined.
Dwendt44 April 9th, 2016 at 01:26
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is controlled by Republicans, heavily so.
Walker’s pet judge just won her seat on the Supremes.
Mike April 9th, 2016 at 13:05
Really doesn’t matter what any of these people say…this one’s going to the SCOTUS no matter who wins or loses, both parties have too big a stake not to go all the way.
Dwendt44 April 9th, 2016 at 01:32
Take away the requirement for representation and the unions might no fight so hard to keep check off in place.
Frank Foster April 9th, 2016 at 02:36
What a complete and utter moron! This nincompoop must be tagged with a beacon blaring that severe stupidity is dangerously close.
bpollen April 9th, 2016 at 03:05
Big talk. Got facts to back it up?
Mensa Member April 9th, 2016 at 11:21
And who is he talking about? Scott Walker? Alan? The court?
Mike April 9th, 2016 at 13:02
He’s talking about Walker…Frank is an educator and union member
CandideThirtythree April 9th, 2016 at 09:09
People in 3rd world countries are literally dying to get in a union and the republitards are cutting them down as fast as they can…republicans are turning the USA into a 3rd world country.
anothertoothpick April 9th, 2016 at 10:24
One in seven Mexican workers earn the average minimum wage of 65.58 pesos ($5.10) a day or less, national statistics office INEGI says. The average hourly wage in Mexico – home to Carlos Slim, one of the world’s richest men – is 31.3 pesos ($2.43).
Mensa Member April 9th, 2016 at 11:14
Alan, please don’t help rich millionaires and billionaires by repeating their propaganda.
“Right to work law” is a focus-groups, carefully crafted propaganda term.
For decades it was called “union busting.” And it was widely rejected by both liberals and conservatives. So, the factory owners paid to have it renamed.
And it’s a completely inaccurate term. Everybody in Wisconsin has the right to work. They can work at a union company, get the union benefits and decline to be in the union.
Union dues are voluntary
But, everybody does have to pay a small fee for the cost of collective bargaining and few other benefits.
If “union-busting” would get you in trouble with Fox News, at least say “anti-union laws.”
Mensa Member April 9th, 2016 at 11:46
And, by the way, there are a whole punch of other conservative propagandist renamings. Some, which I think you avoid and I appreciate.
It’s a fetus, embryo or a fertilized egg. It’s not an “unborn baby”
It’s a national sales tax, not a “fair tax.”
It’s the Democratic Party, not the “DemocRAT Party.”
It’s the inheritance tax, not the “death tax.”
They are discrimination laws, not “religious freedom” laws.
It’s voting restriction not “voter ID laws.”
It’s gun control, not “assaults on the Second Amendment.”
It’s consumer projection, not “over-regulation.”
And on-and-on.
This name changing of popular issues did not just accidentally happen. It was planned and paid for.
And Fox News was a key player. I’m sure they are the only terms you hear in yoiur workplace But please don’t join in.
The Original Just Me April 9th, 2016 at 23:11
It’s the teachings of Christ and Not the Republican Version of Christianity.
William April 9th, 2016 at 12:26
Seriously Scott…do you even history?
The Original Just Me April 9th, 2016 at 23:10
AND, with a Republican President No Less.
The Original Just Me April 9th, 2016 at 23:13
First Item on the Agenda of the Axis Nations was to defeat and eliminate the Labor Unions.