Posted on 04/08/2016 5:39:37 PM PDT by Olog-hai
What about the later enactment of Taft-Hartley? It authorizes state right to work laws. How does that bear on the alleged obligation to grease the unions?
” If a non-union member who is covered by a collective bargaining agreement attempted to negotiate on his or her own behalf, wages, hours, or working conditions, the union could file an unfair labor practice with the NLRB or
equivalent state labor board and would most certainly win.”
That’s mighty lame if you ask me. Sounds like a non-union member is a de facto union member. If I’m not a member of an organization, I shouldn’t have to care what that organization does or doesn’t do.
Maybe Gov Walker should have been more focused on this case rather than foolishly supporting Cruz’s candidacy.
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 permits states to pass right to work laws. It is a federal statute now part of our labor laws. I don’t understand how a state court can rule that it is not valid. The judge’s decision should be over turned on appeal.
This is one problem with elected judges if the constituency is determined to be utter nutcase. Dane County is the seat of the state government and infested with government employees and also the University of Wisconsin at Madison where Stalin or Mao could have sent his commissars for political training.
Correct. Not once but twice I was forced to go to downtown Houston to defend myself against charges brought by nonmembers that I had failed to properly represent them. I won both cases.
As an aside, you should feel the warmth of the welcome given to a redneck cowboy in a major office of the NLRB. The charges had been brought by female minorities. It was breathtaking! lol
The inability of non-union workers to negotiate separately is actually in place to benefit the unions - and was something they pushed very hard for, IIRC.
The issue I have with this ruling is that the union is treated as having more rights than either workers or management.
I would amend the law to say that when union dues paying falls below 50% of the workers at a company, the union is automatically decertified. (And any coercion by the union - or anyone else - to affect individual dues paying is punishable as felony assault.)
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