This week the Supreme Court of the USA will have the chance to right a wrong when it considers whether or not a government employee can be forced to contribute to a union on a so-called 'agency basis' because the union is supposedly negotiating his pay and perks. The fact that a 'yuuuuuuuge' amount of his coerced contribution will, in fact, be used to support the Democratic party despite the possibility that he, personally, may be a supporter of the Republican party, is surely indefensible.
As Lowell Ponte puts it at The American Thinker:
When public workers are forced to pay unions that have used their coerced money to become the biggest funders of Democratic Party candidates, this violates their rights and corrupts our democratic republic. A National Science Foundation-funded General Social Survey found that 32 percent of unionized government workers identify as Republicans or Republican-leaning independents. But at least 90 percent of all public employee union political contributions are given to Democrats.
Thank God the 'Trumpeter' won the election and took his first chance to appoint Neil Gorsuch to the bench, so that should help to tip it. Mind you, that Anthony Kennedy will need to be watched!
Hmm, the link seems to be a little flaccid this morning?
Posted by: Whitewall | Monday, 26 February 2018 at 13:24
Sorry, Whiters, I must have been all fingers and thumbs this morning! Should be fixed now.
Posted by: David Duff | Monday, 26 February 2018 at 14:26
David
All you need to know and a little more.
http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/02/argument-analysis-gorsuch-stays-mum-union-fees/#more-267128
I suspect it will be a narrowly written decision in favor of Janus, or technical victory for the unions that costs them for more than they gain.
Posted by: Hank | Tuesday, 27 February 2018 at 03:13