A US supreme court suit has been filed to halt anti union legislation..

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The Wisconsin State AFL-CIO on Wednesday joined a number of other unions seeking to halt Gov. Scott Walker's controversial collective bargaining legislation.

The groups include the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 24, AFSCME Council 40, AFSCME Council 48, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC), the Wisconsin State Employees Union, The Wisconsin State AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union – Health Care Wisconsin (SEIU).

In a statement, the groups said they filed the suit because the collective-bargaining legislation "denies hundreds of thousands of public employees their right to collectively bargain for a better life. The groups challenge the constitutionality of the state’s Budget Repair Bill which would destroy collective bargaining rights for all but a select group of public sector workers."

The suit, filed in the Western District of Wisconsin, says the legislation violates the 1st and 14th amendments "by stripping away basic rights to bargain, organize and associate for the purpose of engaging in union activity, which have been in place for the last half century."http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/123934004.html#comments



Anyone following this?

[Yon_Yonson]

1. I am viewing this as a postive step ...

I am trying to get a reference source for this USSC quote:

Long ago we stated the reason for labour organizations. We said that union was essential to give labourers opportunity to deal on an equality with their employers.

US Supreme Court

[dragonlady]

2. Source: Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes

Long ago we stated the reason for labor organizations. We said that they were organized out of the necessities of the situation: that a single employee was helpless in dealing with an employer; … that union was essential to give the laborers opportunity to deal on equality with their employer.

Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948) for the U.S. Supreme Court (1930-1941), in NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. 301 U.S. 1 at 33, 1937

http://labor-studies.org/by-education-level/elementary/labor-quotes/

[Yon_Yonson]

3. Thank you dragonlady, interesting quote in light of the lawsuit

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4. Is this the most interesting part:

"that union was essential to give the laborers opportunity to deal on equality with their employer."