EmptyTimCup
05-15-2012, 07:17 AM
Jerry Brown Vetoed a UNION :faint:
Womens' Lawsuit Aims to End Forced Unionization (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/14/womens-lawsuit-aims-to-end-forced-unionization)
MINNEAPOLIS--To some, the actions of the Connecticut legislature that enabled a child care providers union in Connecticut, might appear to add momentum to SEIU and AFCSME’s national campaign to conscript family child care business owners into becoming card-carrying dues-paying union members of these two unions.
Just weeks earlier, however, Governor Paul LePage (R-Maine) signed a bill repealing a 2008 law that sanctioned a union for family child care providers who receive state subsidies. Adding to the confusion, Governor Jerry Brown (D-Calif.) vetoed a bill establishing a union last fall.
The back and forth makes it difficult even for those with a vested interest to track who has the advantage in what’s become the front line in the fight over holding the line on or increasing the ranks of state public employee unions.
A little publicized federal court case being heard on Tuesday in US District Court in Minneapolis, however, takes the divisive issue away from state lawmakers and propels it to the national level, with the potential to end or embolden what some call compulsory unionization once and for all.
“We wish we didn’t have to be in this position to begin with but since we were put in this position, we do believe that this violates our first amendment rights and we intend to argue that in court,” said Jennifer Parrish, a Rochester provider who’s named in the complaint.
“It’s unconstitutional because the first amendment guarantees everyone the right to choose with whom they associate to petition government and that the government can’t choose who’s going to represent providers for lobbying the state,” said Bill Messenger, an attorney with the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation team on the case.
Over time, as many as sixteen states have imposed unionization on family licensed child care providers through executive order or legislation. Yet the number of states with active child care unions has declined, a fact that has gone mostly unnoticed in the past two years.
how is Forced UNIONIZATION by Executive Order ever 'the will of the people'
Womens' Lawsuit Aims to End Forced Unionization (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/14/womens-lawsuit-aims-to-end-forced-unionization)
MINNEAPOLIS--To some, the actions of the Connecticut legislature that enabled a child care providers union in Connecticut, might appear to add momentum to SEIU and AFCSME’s national campaign to conscript family child care business owners into becoming card-carrying dues-paying union members of these two unions.
Just weeks earlier, however, Governor Paul LePage (R-Maine) signed a bill repealing a 2008 law that sanctioned a union for family child care providers who receive state subsidies. Adding to the confusion, Governor Jerry Brown (D-Calif.) vetoed a bill establishing a union last fall.
The back and forth makes it difficult even for those with a vested interest to track who has the advantage in what’s become the front line in the fight over holding the line on or increasing the ranks of state public employee unions.
A little publicized federal court case being heard on Tuesday in US District Court in Minneapolis, however, takes the divisive issue away from state lawmakers and propels it to the national level, with the potential to end or embolden what some call compulsory unionization once and for all.
“We wish we didn’t have to be in this position to begin with but since we were put in this position, we do believe that this violates our first amendment rights and we intend to argue that in court,” said Jennifer Parrish, a Rochester provider who’s named in the complaint.
“It’s unconstitutional because the first amendment guarantees everyone the right to choose with whom they associate to petition government and that the government can’t choose who’s going to represent providers for lobbying the state,” said Bill Messenger, an attorney with the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation team on the case.
Over time, as many as sixteen states have imposed unionization on family licensed child care providers through executive order or legislation. Yet the number of states with active child care unions has declined, a fact that has gone mostly unnoticed in the past two years.
how is Forced UNIONIZATION by Executive Order ever 'the will of the people'