WFB: The fallout from the Supreme Court’s landmark Janus ruling continued as Washington state workers filed suit to recover their lost wages from forced unionism.
Several home health aides are suing Service Employees International Union Local 775 and the state to recover money deducted from Medicaid reimbursements designed to fund the care of disabled or elderly people. The state government automatically sent more than 3 percent of the provider payments to the union, despite the fact that workers never agreed to become members. The practice, according to the suit, violates both the U.S. and state constitutions.
“Plaintiffs and class members are not union members and never consented for the union or the state to withdraw union dues or dues equivalent fees from their wages, yet the state deducted such fees from their pay,” the suit says. “Defendants conspired to deprive Plaintiffs and class members of their First Amendment rights by deducting union fees from their wages without their clear, prior, affirmative consent.” read more
There will surely be more lawsuits. 🙂
It will be interesting here in Maine. George Soros has helped get a “free” home healthcare referendum question on the Nov ballot. It adds 3.8% on income, including pensions, over $128,000. It is a union slush fund. It requires all the public sector healthcare workers to belong to belong to a union. The Janus ruling throws a wrench into that plan.
As union mandated membership is forced on many workers that do not want it there is a natural revulsion by the conscripts. They should be entitled to recover their forced contributions.
Those people do not make high wages as it is. I hope they win and recover penalties and interest as well..
“… forced unionism …”
How does that work, in a Republic?
Aren’t we (a Republic) a free association of free men?
How can a “free” man be “forced” to subject his labor to the profit of another?
Isn’t “forced labor” another name for “slavery?”
izlamo delenda est …
Dislike unions almost as much as I dislike Elon.
Ouch! That’s gonna leave a bruise!