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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Ill. Governor Challenges Union Bosses’ ‘Unconstitutional’ Forced Dues
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March 23, 2015 - 2:17 PM
By Mark Mix
On Monday, February 9, 2015, Rauner issued an executive order prohibiting
unions from collecting so-called fair share fees from non-union members. (AP
Photo)
Three Illinois state employees have moved to intervene in support of
Governor Bruce Rauner’s federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality
of union officials’ power to force nonmember state employees to pay union
fees as a condition of employment.
The three state employees, Mark Janus, Marie Quigley, and Brian Trygg, filed
the motion to intervene in the lawsuit today with legal assistance from
staff attorneys with the National Right to Work Foundation and the Illinois
Policy Institute’s Liberty Justice Center.
Governor Rauner issued an executive order in February that instructs all
state agencies to put in escrow, pending the outcome of the federal lawsuit
filed the same day, all forced union-fee deductions from nonmember state
employees’ wages required by Illinois’ public-sector labor relations
statute.
The Governor’s lawsuit asks that a judgment be entered declaring
unconstitutional the provisions of state collective bargaining agreements
that require nonmember state employees to pay union fees, a judgment that
would effectively grant those workers Right to Work protections.
In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court suggested in its Foundation-won Knox v. SEIU
ruling that it was ready to reassess whether union bosses’ forced dues
powers, which it called “something of an anomaly” in American
jurisprudence, violate civil servants’ First Amendment rights. Then last
year, in the Foundation-won Harris v. Quinn case that originated in Illinois
, the Court struck down compulsory union fees for homecare providers who
indirectly receive state subsidies based on their clientele. In Harris, a
majority of the Court characterized public-sector union officials’ forced
dues powers as “questionable on several grounds.”
Governor Rauner’s lawsuit seeks to apply the Court’s reasoning in these
cases to free Illinois state employees from compulsory union fees.
Governor Rauner’s actions may give Illinois public employees the Right to
Work protections they so desperately need and deserve. We applaud these
civil servants for stepping up in support of their First Amendment right to
not subsidize union officials’ agenda in order to work for their own
government.
Mark Mix is President of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation
. He also serves as President of the National Right to Work Committee, a 2.6
million member public policy organization. | T*********I
发帖数: 10729 | 2 什么是Right to Work States？
A Right to Work law secures the right of employees to decide for themselves
whether or not to join or financially support a union...
http://www.nrtw.org/rtws.htm |
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