{"id":302,"date":"2008-07-13T13:02:38","date_gmt":"2008-07-13T13:02:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:16:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:16:13","slug":"new-low-indiana-pol-actually-invokes-god-to-justify-union-power-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/new-low-indiana-pol-actually-invokes-god-to-justify-union-power-grab\/","title":{"rendered":"New Low: Indiana Pol Actually Invokes God to Justify Union Power Grab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Long Thompson, the Democratic nominee for governor of Indiana, is campaigning on the promise that her first action as chief executive of the state would be to impose union monopoly bargaing on Indiana state employees (and ultimately compel them to fund unions against their will, I presume).  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepaper24-7.com\/main.asp?SectionID=23&amp;SubSectionID=22&amp;ArticleID=16624\">Her reasoning<\/a> could even be viewed as sacriligious <span class=\"019353217-13072008\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff\"><\/span><\/span>by some:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\t&quot;I think (collective bargaining) is a God-given right,&quot; she said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nFor the record, union monopoly bargaining is not even a constitutional right, but rather just a controversial statutory privilege granted by certain legislatures.  Meanwhile, many sincere employees of faith have successfully raised their religious objections to union affiliation, based on their reading of Scripture (or teachings of other religious faiths).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n Thompson&#8217;s comments are likely to be deeply offensive to individuals who believe God disapproves of laws that strip employees of their individual freedom to contract and that force workers to affiliate with radical ideological groups.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNational Right to Work Foundation attorneys have secured the right of employees of faith to trigger federal civil rights laws to secure a reprieve from all requirements to pay dues to unions thought immoral.   Religious objectors to compulsory unionism can learn more about their rights <a href=\"\/conscience\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Long Thompson, the Democratic nominee for governor of Indiana, is campaigning on the promise that her first action as chief executive of the state would be to impose union monopoly bargaing on Indiana state employees (and ultimately compel them to fund unions against their will, I presume).  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepaper24-7.com\/main.asp?SectionID=23&amp;SubSectionID=22&amp;ArticleID=16624\">Her reasoning<\/a> could even be viewed as sacriligious <span class=\"019353217-13072008\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small; font-family: Arial; color: #0000ff\"><\/span><\/span>by some:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\t&quot;I think (collective bargaining) is a God-given right,&quot; she said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Low: Indiana Pol Actually Invokes God to Justify Union Power Grab - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/new-low-indiana-pol-actually-invokes-god-to-justify-union-power-grab\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Low: Indiana Pol Actually Invokes God to Justify Union Power Grab - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jill Long Thompson, the Democratic nominee for governor of Indiana, is campaigning on the promise that her first action as chief executive of the state would be to impose union monopoly bargaing on Indiana state employees (and ultimately compel them to fund unions against their will, I presume). 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