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All he!!'s going to break out
By: trollslayer Date: February 19, 2015, 8:34 pm
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In Illinois. The new Republican governor just signed an
executive order keeping nonunion employees from paying union
dues. Grab the popcorn, this is going to get good!
[quote]Gov. Bruce Rauner stepped up his campaign against
government employee unions by eliminating so-called “fair share”
dues paid by workers who don’t join a union.
The Republican said Monday he has signed an executive order
erasing what he says is a “critical cog in the corrupt bargain
crushing taxpayers.” He says forcing non-union employees to pay
union dues requires them to fund political activity they don’t
agree with.
He says he took action after a U.S. Supreme Court’s decision
last year that found the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act
violated the First Amendment by mandating involuntary union
dues.
Rauner has called for ending political contributions by unions.
Rauner’s executive order has no effect on those who wish to
remain in unions.
Reaction from the unions has been succinct and severe.
SEIU Cocal 73 president Christine Boardman said, “Governor
Rauner`s Executive Order today showed his true colors: a man
whose top priority is to ruin the lives of working families in
Illinois.”
AFSCME Council 31 executive director Roberta Lynch said in part,
“Bruce Rauner`s scheme to strip the rights of state workers and
weaken their unions by executive order is a blatantly illegal
abuse of power.”[/quote]
HTML http://wgntv.com/2015/02/09/gov-rauner-signs-executive-order-allowing-state-employees-to-opt-out-of-union-dues/
To Christine Boardman I ask, how does putting money back in to
the pocket of those you've been extorting "ruin their lives?"
To Roberta Lynch I ask how is this an illegal abuse of power"?
The Supreme Court already ruled the Illinois Public Labor
Relations Act violated the First Amendment by mandating
involuntary union dues. What exactly is illegal?
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Re: All he!!'s going to break out
By: rapids_60 Date: February 19, 2015, 11:25 pm
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An "executive order" you say? Acting on his own without the
elected representatives?
What an imperialist. :)
Funny how it's only an abuse of power if you disagree with the
end result.
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Re: All he!!'s going to break out
By: trollslayer Date: February 20, 2015, 6:55 am
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[quote author=rapids_60 link=topic=1397.msg19173#msg19173
date=1424409941]
An "executive order" you say? Acting on his own without the
elected representatives?
What an imperialist. :)
Funny how it's only an abuse of power if you disagree with the
end result.
[/quote]
Did I post anywhere that I agreed with this? Funny how I knew
you were going to say that. You're trying to compare apples to
oranges here Rapids. You have a President who is granting
amnesty to millions of illegals at taxpayer expense. Here you
have a Governor who is simply carrying out a judgement of the
Supreme Court, giving back union dues to those who don't wish to
pay them. He has the Supreme Court behind him.
[quote]The governor’s actions come after his attorneys reviewed
the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year in Harris v. Quinn.
In that case, the Supreme Court ruled that the Illinois Public
Labor Relations Act violated the First Amendment by forcing
certain state employees to involuntarily pay fees to a labor
union.
In light of that decision, the Rauner administration has
concluded that the so-called “fair share” provisions of the
current collective bargaining agreements, that are similar to
those invalidated by the Supreme Court in Harris v. Quinn, are
also unconstitutional.[/quote]
HTML http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2015/02/breaking-via-executive-order-rauner-ends-state-worker-mandated-union-dues.html
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Re: All he!!'s going to break out
By: trollslayer Date: February 20, 2015, 8:42 am
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In case you didn't know what Harris V Quinn was about,
[quote]In Harris v. Quinn, the Court struck down an Illinois law
authorizing the state to agree with the SEIU, the union that
represents government-paid home care workers, that the workers
must pay their fair share of the cost of the legal services that
the SEIU is required by law to provide. The Court held that the
contract provision requiring payment of the fair share of the
costs of the services violated the government employees’ First
Amendment rights to be free from providing financial support to
collective bargaining. The decision disregards the Court’s
longstanding principle that it will not decide questions of
state law. It unsettles decades of precedent about
public-sector unions, and is difficult to reconcile with the
First Amendment rights of government workers or with the Court’s
other cases on when compulsory fees constitute compelled
speech.[/quote]
HTML http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/07/harris-v-quinnsymposium-court-departs-from-federalism-first-amendment-jurisprudence/
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Re: All he!!'s going to break out
By: rapids_60 Date: February 20, 2015, 10:01 pm
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[quote author=trollslayer link=topic=1397.msg19176#msg19176
date=1424436921]
Did I post anywhere that I agreed with this? [/quote]
So you are not in favor of the governor carrying out orders of
the Supreme Court? :D
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Re: All he!!'s going to break out
By: trollslayer Date: February 21, 2015, 7:58 am
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[quote author=rapids_60 link=topic=1397.msg19184#msg19184
date=1424491303]
So you are not in favor of the governor carrying out orders of
the Supreme Court? :D
[/quote]
It actually should have been done before he got into office.
Since the prior resident was a democrat one can only assume he
was in bed with the unions and just "overlooked" the
consequences of the ruling.
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Re: All he!!'s going to break out
By: rapids_60 Date: February 21, 2015, 2:59 pm
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[quote author=trollslayer link=topic=1397.msg19188#msg19188
date=1424527109]
Since the prior resident was a democrat one can only assume he
was in bed with the unions and just "overlooked" the
consequences of the ruling.
[/quote]
Most likely.
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