California State Employees Lay Out Class-Action Lawsuit before Supreme Court
Court to review Ninth Circuit decision requiring California state employees to contribute to union political fund
Washington, DC (September 14, 2011) – National Right to Work Foundation attorneys filed the initial brief with the United States Supreme Court, which is reviewing a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that forced nonunion California state employees to fund union officials' political activism.
Foundation attorneys, who are litigating the case, filed the brief Monday for the eight California civil servants who initiated a class-action lawsuit against the California State Employee Association (CSEA) union, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
In 2005, CSEA union officials imposed a "special assessment" to raise money from all represented state employees for a union political fund, regardless of their membership status. The political fund was used to defeat several ballot proposals, including one that revoked public employee unions' special privilege of using forced fees for political contributions unless an employee consents. Employees who refrained from union membership were given no chance to opt out of the CSEA union's political fund.
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right to work and the poorest states in the USA
If it is so wonderful to work in a "right to work" state, please explain why 7 of the 10 POOREST states in the US are "right to work" states??
poor right to work states.
You are drawing a false parallel between poverty and a state being "Right to Work". All the States you reference are from the South, all of which were treated as step children for over 100 years after the Civil War. All these states were poor, and desperately so, prior to the Union Labor expansion in the North, and prior to "Right to Work" legislation.
The reality is, that these States have greatly improved their relative position since that time, and it appears that many companies will relocate themselves to these States to preserve themselves, from non-competitive wages in the non-right to work States.
In the next few years, the fully Unionized States will take their places on the bottom of the list.
I can sum up the above, in this fashion: Although being "Right to Work" had nothing to do with them initially being poor States, being "Right to Work" will positively change that status relative to those that are not.
Since we are talking about "poverty statistics" could you explain to me why 8 of the 10 poorest large cities are in the most highly Unionized States? Only 2 of the 10 are in "Right to Work" States. 50 years ago these same cities were among the richest in the Nation. I think this is the more cause and effect relationship, and the trend you should be looking at!
Our country is now taking so
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.
Thomas Jefferson
What happen
10 years ago Oklahoma passed the Right to work laws. They had an increase of 33% in business.
2011 28% of those businesses have left the state. Wow guess they won't be on the top of any list any time soon.