Posted on 04/07/2013 8:50:06 AM PDT by redreno
Unionized government workers in Texas — including firefighters, police and teachers — don’t have the right to be accompanied by a union representative while being questioned during internal investigations, a divided Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday.
Such representation is a basic right for unionized private sector and federal government employees.
But in a case begun by a Round Rock firefighter disciplined in 2008, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that state labor law doesn’t specifically confer a similar right to workers employed by state, county, city or local governments in Texas.
“On its face, (Texas law) confers only one explicit right: the right to organize into a trade union or other organization,” Justice Paul Green wrote for the majority. “It says nothing about any rights that may attach once such unions are formed.”
Writing in dissent, Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson argued that state law isn’t silent on the issue because it gives employees the right to unionize “to protect themselves … in their respective employment.”
“How can unions protect employees’ jobs if they cannot engage in conduct to protect employees’ jobs?” Jefferson wrote.
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The union is pretty weak here.
I hate Union goons.
Texas you have a turd in your judicial punchbowl, and his name is Wally Jefferson. And guess what, he’s one of “Holder’s People!” This is what you get for “not picking your own cotton!”
Wait a cotton pickin’ moment!!
The union could provide an attorney.
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