Finally. Thank You SCOTUS for suppressing oppression and thuggery.
Four SC justices voted to allow this scheme? That is sick.
Great news. Here in IL this will provide some impetus for Bruce Rauner’s campaign who has a big struggle ahead to try to unseat the inept democrat Pat Quinn, who was Blago’s LG and replaced him after he resigned.
Will they now have to pay it back?...................
I hope those families get retroactive refunds.
What is really ironic is that the lawsuit did NOT pertain to public workers. Therefore, what governor’s Quinn and Blagoyovich did was to pass a law that forced NON gov’t workers to pay dues to a union.
This was really a no brainer for SCOTUS even though 4 voted dissented. Had the lawsuit involved a public sector worker forced to pay dues, who knows the outcome, since Kennedy passed this law in the 1960s and it was never contested.
NOW as a result they’ve screwed it up for the millions of gov’t workers who are compelled to pay union dues. No doubt public workers will not want to pay union dues anymore.
These guys should be nominated for the Darwin award.
Lawyers argued that because Harris and other home health aides receive taxpayer money, they are state employees subject to union dues.
Only a hack has that type of logic looks like unions are going to have to go back to loan sharking.
I wonder if any of the justices considered that allowing the SEIU to forcefully take dues from PAs is a direct transfer of government Social Security Disability funds to the union. How is that constitutional?