Supreme Court rules against Unions

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   RJ Schwartzposted 7 years ago

   The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday dealt a blow to organized labor, ruling that non-members cannot be forced in certain states to pay fees to unions representing public employees such as teachers and police, shutting off a key union revenue source. The ruling means that the estimated 5 million non-union workers who pay these fees will no longer have to do so.
   
   Do you think this is a "win" for the American people or are you expecting a backlash in some way? What do you expect the loss of funding might do to political contributions of organized labor?

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      MizBejabbersposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      That is a good question. I have never considered it fair to require support to a cause one did not believe in. However, I believe that unions are necessary to protect workers from big corporate greed and mistreatment. I've always believed that unions should support themselves by their members and not take advantage of other workers, and I think the ruling was a fair one. There probably will be a backlash from big unions. It's hard for me to say because I live in a state that has never been strong toward unions. I worked in a non-union factory for about a year when I was having career problems in my late 20s. My salary was about 2/3s the hourly rate of a union employee in the same company in unionized St. Louis, Mo.

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      ahorsebackposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      Unions all across the board are a dying entity in America  ,  union membership is down , dues are down and here's point  not discussed ,  Democrats love unions , it is a force of demanded ideological  servitude .  Larger unions have traditionally voted democrat ;  Gets what happens as they die ?
      Democrats lose that political servitude , they also lose that donation dollar !
      
      One more democratic party power decline ?
      For the better .

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         MizBejabbersposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         When our industry has been sent overseas, there is no need for unions, of course, union membership is at a decline. When there is no industry to unionize, where is the need?

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            ahorsebackposted 7 years agoin reply to this

            No , some of the most dangerous unions are in the education system , municipal jobs , state jobs , federal jobs ,  high tech activists destroying America .  Union employees aren't just coal miners and auto workers my friend .

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               MizBejabbersposted 7 years agoin reply to this

               If you say so. I live in what used to be a right-to-work state, so unionism isn't strong here except against some big industries. Ma Bell, before the breakup, for instance. State government has an organization called the Arkansas State Employees Association, but about all it does is lobby for the employees and sell insurance to employees. It has very little real clout. Maybe a few strong education unions need to rise up and whammy the uneducated Betsy de Vos who wants to privatize our public schools.

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