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South Carolina governor sued over hostility to unions
Reuters ^ | 1/20/2011

Posted on 01/20/2011 3:11:22 PM PST by redk

(Reuters) - South Carolina unions filed suit on Thursday against new Republican Governor Nikki Haley and her administration, saying hostility toward unions and workers joining unions is unconstitutional.

The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers and the South Carolina AFL-CIO alleges that Haley is violating the federal constitutional and statutory rights to free speech, free association and due process.

South Carolina is one of 22 "Right to Work" states and Haley said she will ensure that South Carolina workers are not compelled to join a union.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: haley; lawsuit; nikkihaley; sc; unions
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To: redk

Missouri is looking at legislation to allow right to work. unions are already screaming.


21 posted on 01/20/2011 4:16:54 PM PST by o_zarkman44 ("When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: MsLady

Does this mean I can sue my congresscritter for calling me a Nazi?


22 posted on 01/20/2011 4:17:13 PM PST by Ingtar (Together we go broke (from a Pookie18 post))
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To: Ingtar

Sounds like a great idea to me!!!!


23 posted on 01/20/2011 4:18:41 PM PST by MsLady (If you died tonight, where would you go? Salvation, don't leave earth without it!)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Personally I’d like to see unions doing more of this kind of stuff. They need more attention given to them so people will learn their true colors. Kinda like the liberals have been doing the past two years. Bring it on!


24 posted on 01/20/2011 4:26:55 PM PST by cblue55 (Envisioning when all that is left is the right.)
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To: redk

Lawyers and unions: Scourge of America.


25 posted on 01/20/2011 4:37:42 PM PST by Longdriver
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To: redk

It’s mind boggling. They are suing her so she will not say negative things about unionization, claiming that her free speech infringes on their right to free speech.

What are they teaching in law schools? Obviously not elementary logic.


26 posted on 01/20/2011 4:44:50 PM PST by neocon1984
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To: Longdriver

Nikki is trying to show how right-to-work brings business gushing in.

She will win this, and the state will advance.


27 posted on 01/20/2011 4:48:06 PM PST by txhurl
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To: redk

Knuckledragging union thugs are really a bunch of morons. Just because their Commie’RAT massas can get away with calling everything “unconstitional”, it does not mean that they can.


28 posted on 01/20/2011 4:49:37 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (They're not going to shut me up! - Sarah Palin 2012)
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To: SandRat

I like her her already.


29 posted on 01/20/2011 4:52:01 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (Who needs Al Queda to worry about when we have Obama?)
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To: redk
They are just doing this because she is of Indian decent.

The Unions are organized Bigots, just like the KKK.

Can't wait for Olberdork, Chrissy the Prissy and Sergeant Schultz to get right on top of this hatred and vitriolic attack on the Governor because of her Race.

30 posted on 01/20/2011 4:53:59 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (They bring a Bible to a Memorial, we bring a T Shirt - Long Legged Mac Daddy)
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To: Kickass Conservative
DESCENT, geez...
31 posted on 01/20/2011 4:54:45 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (They bring a Bible to a Memorial, we bring a T Shirt - Long Legged Mac Daddy)
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To: redk

Are these f’ing union goons smoking crack? Where in the Sam Hill does the Constitution say anything about the ‘’right of the people to form unions will not be infringed’’? This is what a public school education will do to the simple minded. The US Constitution, your guide to tax-payer funded everything.


32 posted on 01/20/2011 5:34:11 PM PST by jmacusa (Two wrongs don't make a right. But they can make it interesting.)
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To: redk
feh...
33 posted on 01/20/2011 5:42:49 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: redk
I hope the AFL-CIO union members are happy that their "leaders" are flushing their union dues down the toilet for idiotic, crappy, not-a-snowball's-chance-in-hell lawsuits like this.

On the plus side, I suppose it means less money for them to spend on the next election.

34 posted on 01/20/2011 5:47:56 PM PST by vrwc1
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To: Jet Jaguar; DollyCali; Force of Truth; MontaniSemperLiberi; nakutny; SC Swamp Fox; visualops; ...
Nikki Haley Ping


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35 posted on 01/20/2011 6:59:29 PM PST by upchuck (When excerpting please use the entire 300 words we are allowed. No more one or two sentence posts!)
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To: mongo141

Have you driven a Toyota, lately?


36 posted on 01/21/2011 2:06:00 AM PST by 57Chevy (Freedom is not Free!)
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To: redk


Only been in office a week and the AFL-CIO is suing her already, I like it.

Liberals/Socialists/Democrats can’t handle a Republican/Conserative
possessed of even a bit of melanin.
I can’t forget the vile profane abuse launced at an Asian guy that
participated at our peaceful protests during the 2000 Bush-Gore
election imbroglio at the Federal Building in West Los Angeles.

The general comment from impassioned liberals to the fellow was
“What the F-— are you doing with these people???”
(As in someone that wasn’t lilly-white necessarily must be lined up
in lock-step with the Democrats).

Wish I had a video-cam to record some of the vile crap hurled at
that guy.


37 posted on 01/21/2011 2:40:51 AM PST by VOA
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To: jakerobins

I read a few years ago that union machinists for Boeing earned something like $150k per year plus benefits and OT. Their union more than anything else drove the manufacturing wing of Boeing out of Washington State.


38 posted on 01/21/2011 3:50:40 AM PST by saneright
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To: redk

I thought that a right to free association implied a right not to associate. The union goons are suing her because they cannot compel people to join their unions in SC, said compulsion being forced association, not free association.


39 posted on 01/21/2011 4:11:44 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (up)
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To: 57Chevy

Nope!


40 posted on 01/21/2011 8:02:57 AM PST by mongo141
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