By Robert Laurie ——Bio and Archives--September 29, 2017
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The justices will hear the case of Mark Janus, an Illinois state employee who objects to paying fees to the union, which represents 35,000 state workers. The decision, due by next June, could prove a costly setback for public-sector unions in 22 states, including California, where such fees are authorized by law. Labor experts have predicted a significant percentage of employees would stop supporting their union if given a choice. The other 28 states have “right to work” laws that forbid requiring workers to join or support a union.In other words, it has the potential to decimate public-sector unions ability to force workers to give them money that they intern funnel to the DNC and Democrat candidates. This, would please left-wing God-King Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He believed - correctly - that public sector unions would eventually develop into something akin to hostage-taking organizations. After all, if government unions are allowed to strike against their employers - the American people - they become little more than a massive shake-down operation against which the voters have little recourse. As FDR put it:
"All Government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service.
....Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable. It is, therefore, with a feeling of gratification that I have noted in the constitution of the National Federation of Federal Employees the provision that "under no circumstances shall this Federation engage in or support strikes against the United States Government."Their demands for more money, coupled with their political and bureaucratic power would make them too cozy with politicians and essentially grant them power over the lives of the people the government was supposed to represent. Conservatives have long warned that FDR's worst fears had been realized. Unions support Democrats, Unions contribute member dues to Democrats, Democrats support Union causes, repeat. Democrats usually refuse to admit that's the case, but take a look at what ThinkProgress "Justice Editor" Ian Millhiser posted yesterday:
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With Gorsuch on the bench, however, there is little suspense regarding how Janus will come down. Unions will almost certainly be severely weakened by this decision. And, as a benefit to the Supreme Court’s increasingly partisan majority, that will also weaken a key arm of the Democratic party’s political infrastructure, making it more likely that the Court will remain in Republican hands.There you have it. Public unions are an arm of the Democratic party's political infrastructure. Best part? Here's the picture at the top of Millhiser's Twitter page:
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