As we told you earlier, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that it is no longer mandatory for government employees to have union dues extracted:
#SCOTUS holds requiring nonmembers of public-sector unions to pay fees to cover collective-bargaining activities violates the First Amendment, overruling longstanding precedent
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 27, 2018
Here's the #SCOTUS opinion in Janus v. AFSCME: https://t.co/o01b3M2J9H
— SCOTUSblog (@SCOTUSblog) June 27, 2018
NOT tired of the winning: SCOTUS deals 'devastating blow' to public sector unions https://t.co/KpvDpZ2Vbo
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) June 27, 2018
ThinkProgress and justice editor Ian Millhiser, already hit hard yesterday by SCOTUS overturning Trump’s “travel ban,” has sounded the alarm about the latest decision in Janus:
https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1011972705321615365
https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1011974945952411648
“Nuked public sector unions”?
that's…. not what happened https://t.co/1CwJ69DxTX
— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair (@senatorshoshana) June 27, 2018
Pretty, pretty, pretty sure they just said that people who don't belong to unions don't have to pay for them.
More suitable replacement for "nuking" would be "made the system fair." https://t.co/GF8LO9poJ5
— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) June 27, 2018
Do progressives realize what they’re saying by arguing for mandatory extraction of union dues?
It really says something about unions if making union contributions voluntary “nukes” the unions… https://t.co/mv21fvhfpf
— A lady (@Anastasia_esq) June 27, 2018
Right!?
Nothing scares the hell out of unions like the idea of voluntary membership in their organizations. Tells you pretty much all you need to know about what they think of the services they provide. #Janus
— Derek Hunter (@derekahunter) June 27, 2018
Democrats are super-pissed that people can't be forced to join an organization they don't want to be in.
That doesn't seem very democratic of them.
— RBe (@RBPundit) June 27, 2018
Apparently public sector unions can only exist if they compel non-members to subsidize them. Quite an admission. https://t.co/VV0gceFzOo
— (((Not Ashamed ن))) (@manatani) June 27, 2018
If your main argument for an industry is, "It'll die off without forced patronization," maybe it's the industry that has the problem. https://t.co/Zt8nQxCtyB
— Joseph Ashby (@JosephAshbyShow) June 27, 2018
Shh! Don’t tell them.
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