Union leaders who jumped the gun on the 2016 election thinking the Democrats and Hillary Clinton would win and take charge of the U.S. Supreme Court will now pay for their very bad decision. Also, the leaders of some of the union leaders did not understand the feelings of their members on where their support lay, which was with Bernie Sanders.
Labor went to court with three cases on labor arbitration agreements, which now will lose in the right-leaning Supreme Court and end up being the law of the land. In another case, the Court will decide whether public employee unions can collect fees from non-union members. If we lose this case, we can kiss the relevancy of labor unions goodbye. The law will bankrupt the unions and the loss of union membership will be catastrophic.
These Court cases will be the Justice Department vs the National Labor Relation Board, which is a federal agency, will oppose each other in Court. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, this will be a first in her 25 years on the court and it looks like a five to four victory for the employers, and their non-union businesses.
This will radically tilt the landscape in favor of corporations if workers lose here. This was just such a bad decision on labor’s part and will put labor behind for the next ten years or until we are smart enough to elect labor friendly people.
What we need to remember is that the U.S. Supreme Court can giveth and taketh away. We must never let our guard down again by being overly confident. This has cost us dearly. The anti-union Republicans take a case to court, if they lose in one court they appeal to the next and ask the court to pass on judgment so the case can get to the Supreme Court and become law of the land. This means another lesson we need to learn is to not take a case to the Court until you have a good chance to win. If you lose, it can be forever (Law of the Land).
Unions’ long game is to get all union contracts to expire on the same day nationwide. The United Auto Workers combines contracts ends on April 28, 2028. This could then result in a mass national strike starting on May Day beeginning that year. This could then put enormous pressure on employers, but also on lawmakers. It’s the muscle and sweat of the workers that keeps this country great, not the individual company or corporations. This May Day strike would be the time to change the workers’ world for the better by negotiating for a 32-hour week with the same pay, and the U.S. adopts a healthcare for all with no out of pocket costs. This would also help the employers as they would no longer have to provide healthcare. By striking, the UAW won same pay for new workers, all UAW contracts will end on the same date, a 25-percent pay increase, a cost of living adjustments, a guaranteed right to strike over potential plant closures, and also the right to vote to unionize through the card che
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