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WillowTree

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11. But that's this guy's point. He isn't a union member.

Reply to turbinetree (Reply #6)

Mon Feb 19, 2018, 02:55 PM

Feb 2018

You do realize that closed shops were declared illegal in this Country in 1947, do you not? If not, look up the Taft-Hartley Act. He didn't join the union and is suing to have the fees that non-union employees are required to pay to the union outlawed.

I don't have a dog in this particular fight as I can see, as far as I am able, both sides of this thing and, admittedly, don't have a thorough enough understanding of the union side to form a responsible opinion.

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Gorsuch deciding vote in key labor union funding case [View all] turbinetree Feb 2018 OP

Be prepared to lose everything that is good; unions, voting rights, clean air and water Eliot Rosewater Feb 2018 #1

I wonder if Mr Janus knows that important fact you just commented about turbinetree Feb 2018 #2

I think it is a given how Gorsuch is going to vote and it clearly will not be pro-Union. hlthe2b Feb 2018 #3

I remember living out there when his mother was in charge, turbinetree Feb 2018 #4

You lost me. WillowTree Feb 2018 #5

To join a union, you sign a card to have the union represent you in contractual matters with a turbinetree Feb 2018 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author WillowTree Feb 2018 #9

But that's this guy's point. He isn't a union member. WillowTree Feb 2018 #11

As a former union rep I fully understand Taft Hartley and it sucks turbinetree Feb 2018 #12

This is a government workers' union. WillowTree Feb 2018 #13

He lives in a unionized closed shop state, Illinois turbinetree Feb 2018 #14

And you stated the exact issue that he is contesting. WillowTree Feb 2018 #15

If "swinger" KENNEDY is on the wingnut side (as usual), GORSUCH will certainly be UTUSN Feb 2018 #7

Yepper, spot on turbinetree Feb 2018 #8

gonna take a LONG TIME to undo there BULLSHIT!!!!!! bluestarone Feb 2018 #10

Scumbag wants to be a free loader and doesnt care if he destroys the country to get it Lee-Lee Feb 2018 #16