Janus.....a union worker who doesn't agree with the Leftist policies and candidates that his union uses the dues it collects, sues to block forcing him to pay dues!
This sort of thing is what he objects to:
"
Andy Stern of the SEIU:
We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama — $60.7 million to be exact — and we’re proud of it."
LaborPains.org | The Price of An Election
Union support is the life's blood of the Democrat Party.
Where did the union get that money, and who decided how it is to be spent?
1. "On June 6, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation asked the Supreme Court to hear
Janus v. AFSCME, a case involving plaintiff Mark Janus...is compelled to send part of his paycheck to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, even though he says that the union does not “
represent his interests.”
2. Right-to-work proponents are optimistic that the Court will hear the case and that Neil Gorsuch, Scalia’s replacement, will come down as the fifth vote on the side of
employee freedom and overturn the 40-year-old precedent established in
Abood v.
Detroit Board of Education, in which the Supreme Court held that
states may force public-sector workers to pay union dues, ....
3. The Economic Policy Institute, an organization with
strong ties to
organized labor, claims that prohibiting fair-share payments could “profoundly affect the ability of millions of public-sector workers to improve their wages and working conditions....
4. [But former] research fellow in labor economics at the Heritage Foundation
James Sherk explains that “studies that control for differences in costs of living find workers in states with
voluntary dues have no lower—and possibly slightly higher—real wages than workers in states with
compulsory dues.”
Here come the predictions of the end of the Democrat Party:
5. Even if the Court decides to hear the case, a decision in
Janus is most likely a year off. But the unions are planning for the worst-case scenario. California Teachers Association Executive Director Joe Nuñez wrote in January that the CTA should
be prepared for a 30 percent to 40 percent membership drop, ....
6. But whatever the membership drop might be, it will be damaging to the unions and could have widespread ramifications. And perhaps
no group will be more affected than the Democratic Party. Naomi Walker, an assistant to AFSCME president Lee Saunders and a former Obama administration appointee, said that
Janus “could undermine political operations that assist the Democratic Party.”
She added, “
The progressive infrastructure in this country, from think tanks to advocacy organizations—which depends on the resources and engagement of workers and their unions—will crumble. We need the entire labor and progressive movements to stand with us and fight for us.
We may not survive without it—and nor, we fear, will they.”
['tis a consummation devoutly to be wished'....The Bard]
7. "The
loss of these unions’ political clout certainly was a factor in giving Donald Trump narrow victories in both states. Should the Court decide for Janus in
Janus, neither the apocalypse nor utopia will be upon us, but
much will change.
8. Most notably, many government workers will have much freedom than they have now, and the Democratic Party won’t have the same bundles of cash flowing from union piggy banks."
Janus and Worker Freedom
In full disclosure....the future of the Supreme Court, and of this nation, was my #1 reason for voting for President Trump.
The Democrats see exactly why.
Dear
PoliticalChic
1. Thanks for enumerating the several points this issue affects.
You do a great job and I will try to follow your example when I unload on fellow Democrats
and what it will take us to fix the messes caused by party politics.
You go!
2. I still hope I can organize and launch a national class action over the rights violated
and damages caused by the unconstitutional ACA mandates, bailouts, and govt shutdown in protest.
I est. taxpayers are owed billions if not trillions, if we'd all come together as a CLASS and demand refunds and restitution for the imposition
on our finances and freedoms that weren't justified as we were not convicted of crimes to lose our liberties.
Any "compelling interest" could have been addressed with PRIVATE LLC and business/nonprofit reforms without relying on govt to try to force it
which it has no constitutional authority to do WITHOUT AN AMENDMENT FIRST PASSED BY THE SEVERAL STATES TO GIVE THAT FUNCTION TO GOVT.
3. As for labor pools, socialist and other worker parties and unions
PoliticalChic I would say these are the people who could jump on board with business and job plans
and work WITH TRUMP and Trump AND BERNIE supporters to jumpstart economic expansion, starting with schools
that can train new workers to mentor under the experienced laborers retiring and aging out of the system.
Both Trump and Sanders face restitution they owe for abuses and/or academic fraud.
They can use the defunct and abused school system to organize workers
by skill level, match them to business sponsors, and fund education by on the job training
and paid internships so students can work their way through school. Including medical
and nursing school so this provides "universal health care" at the same time we train the staff
and expand the facilities needed to serve local populations to reach all people at affordable sustainable levels.
Together, the workers and small business folks on LEFT and RIGHT
can overcome the oppression by class politics pushed by elitist Democrats
playing the same corporate games they accuse opponents of doing.
Just like the ants and the grasshoppers, the ants need to unite all the anthills
and chase off the bullies exploiting that labor. If we don't unite, that's how we
all become victims to partisan politics pitting the rich and poor against each other.
The workers at the bottom are the key to uniting around sustainable business plans
and development across the states and in each district, focused around local schools and supporting business interests.
For unions, the teachers unions and police unions are the key to stabilizing each district,
uniting with their local communities, taking back control of programs, property and policies
and stopping the govt abuses and waste by politicians making profits and careers off
keeping these people divided against each other instead of organizing and governing their own resources!
Thanks PC
If you can please help me take this idea above
and explain it in conservative talking points,
we can lobby both left and right to unite,
* both Sanders workers supporters and Trump supporters,
* both teachers unions and police unions,
* both health care and prison reform lobbyists,
and take back state resources and local authority
instead of handing more and more over to federal govt where it gets abused.
How can we write this up to appeal to both Left and Right
to unite and create jobs for workers and students to fix these problems and abuses?