Posted on 05/25/2010 5:41:54 PM PDT by george76
State judges are trying to join forces with the state's largest teachers union in a campaign to get raises...
Maverick Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Arthur Schack is leading a faction of angry jurists talking to the United Federation of Teachers about putting judges under the umbrella of the local union or its Albany County-based parent, New York State United Teachers.
Such a coalition of state judges and a highly politicized labor union would be unprecedented in the country and would open a Pandora's box of ethical issues.
The teachers union has had more than a dozen cases before the state bench in the last two years. Only two months ago, a Manhattan judge ruled in the UFT's favor ...
Taking matters into their own hands, some judges have billed their state expense accounts of $10,000 for frivolous expenditures like trips to Cuba and to a California meditation retreat...
The state's Taylor Law prohibits public servants, including judges, from striking. But the law is frequently challenged in court -- in cases that unions bring before judges.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Union judges. Great! That’s just what we need. Handbasket, Hell. Hell, Handbasket.
Oh yeah, those will be some fair courts.
Unions have never used their unity to seek a political goal which did not first protect those weaker or less connected.
Adding the judiciary, with its capacity to correct injustice, to the unions will end racism, economic injustice, and create a common good.
Hope and change baby hope and change....
And I had always thought judges were members of the Sharks R US union.
Whooda thunk it was just lawyers?
After all, don’t they consider themselves “Brothers in the law”?
We overcome the judges with jury nullification. Put them in their rightful place as glorified mediators in jury trials.
"What do you call someone who finishes at the bottom of their law school class?"
Ans: "Your honour"
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