cope unioin issues and todays politics
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“If you are a company that wants to bring unionized jobs here, think again. We don’t want you here. We won’t let that water in here.” South Carolina Governor, Nikki Haley
On the defeat of the UAW in the plant union representation election at the Chattanooga, Tennessee VolksWagon production facility in February 2014.
Unions Are An Engine For Progress
Labor Values Are Respected in Law
Unions Are An Engine For Progress
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT 1964
Unions Are An Engine For Progress
Labor Alliances Get Pro Worker Laws
Protect Labor Gains
Unions Are An Engine For Progress
Wealth Inequality in America
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Tax CutsDividends Capital GainsExpanding Corporate Tax Credits0 tax on carried interest Oil depletion allowance
60% reductionin taxes on the wealthy andcorporations
The I% Koch Machine
Harris V Quinn Cornell University School of Law - Legal Information Institute
CONCLUSIONMore than twenty-five years ago, in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, the Supreme Court ruled that non-union teachers may be compelled to support union activities for collective-bargaining purposes. Now, in Harris v. Quinn, the Supreme Court will consider whether its holding in Abood extends to in-home caregivers operating under Illinois’s Medicaid-waiver programs. Quinn argues that Illinois’s system of mandatory support is consistent with the Court’s holding in Abood and that it serves the compelling state interests of promoting labor peace and preventing free-riding. Harris counters that Abood should be overruled or limited to its facts and that Illinois’s system violates freedom of speech and freedom of
association. In granting certiorari, the Court may be signaling that it intends to revisit its holding in Abood, a decision that could have significant implications for both the sustainability of labor unions and employees’ First Amendment rights.
Challenges whether public service workers have the right to unionize.
Challenges whether all bargaining unit members should pay their fair share in the cost of collective bargaining and representation.
National Right to Work Foundation argued to to overturn Abood for every public service employee bargaining unit not just home care and child care workers.
Harris V Quinn
1. The court could uphold collective bargaining but overturn fair share arrangements. Home care and child care unions would then be subject to "right to work" rules
2. The court could overturn collective bargaining for home care workers in Illinois, which could potentially affect home care and child care providers in other states.
3. The court could go further and overturn fee payer status for all public workers
Harris V Quinn Possible Outcomes
Right to Work States - 2000
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Right to Work States - 2014
Right to Work States in black
One Effect of Harris v Quinn on Public Unions
Right to Work States in black