Wisconsin appeals court grants stay, reinstates right-to-work law

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

World | Wed May 25, 2016 4:37pm EDT

Wisconsin appeals court grants stay, reinstates right-to-work law

A Wisconsin state appeals court has reinstated a right-to-work law that was struck down by a lower court that said it was unconstitutional, granting a stay while the earlier ruling is appealed, the state's attorney general said.

In April, Dane County Judge William Foust ruled the measure was unconstitutional because it takes property, in the form of fees, from labor unions without compensating them.

The right-to-work law made it possible for workers to be represented by a union but to opt out of paying dues. The International Association of Machinists, United Steelworkers and AFL-CIO sued the state after the law went into effect saying that they were being forced to provide services without compensation.

"We feel confident the law will ultimately be found constitutional, as it has been in more than half the states across the country," the Wisconsin Department of Justice said in a statement late on Tuesday.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-wisconsin-unions-idUSKCN0YG2VJ

[Press Virginia]

1. While RTW sucks I have a little problem with a decision

that deems the money of others as property of the Union.

[wolfie001]

2. So you have a problem with the concept of a "Union Shop"?

[Press Virginia]

3. What? Just because I don't believe dues or revenue is property

Of an organization that has yet to receive it doesn't mean I have a problem with unions.
Words mean things

[wolfie001]

4. Those "fees" are Union dues

They're used to help run the Union and help the Union bargain with their employer. It's pretty cut and dry. If you apply for a job and there is a Union present, the contract stipulates that you are going to pay Union dues. If you consider that a theft of one's future "property", you always have the right to mosey on down to WalMart and work in their free market Utopia. This philosophy is a basic plank in the Democratic Party since the 19th century. Still relevant today judging by the dwindling median wage and vanishing benefits.

[Press Virginia]

5. I know what they are and what they do

but they are revenue not property.

[wolfie001]

6. Not sure why you left your first comment

Maybe to bait a real Union worker into the ass scratching thickets of anti-Union philosophy? Again,

[Press Virginia]

7. No. I just didn't like the treating revenue as property

Property is a cost