In other news, The US Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision Feb 24th upheld an Idaho state law (overturned in federal district court) banning payroll check-off deduction for Union political activities. While this ruling technically only affects government (including city, county, etc) employees, it's only a matter of time before they come after us (note that this issue was brought by the National Right to Work Foundation) . . .
"Payroll deduction should not be a constitutionally protected right," said Stefan Gleason, vice president of the National Right To Work Legal Defense Foundation, which filed court papers in the case. "We feel it's bad public policy to have government bodies essentially be bagmen for union political monies."
Justices John Paul Stevens and David Souter dissented, saying the law was clearly aimed at stopping the political speech of unions.
The new language was placed inside a law "that deals with unions, the statute amended regulates unions, and all this legislation is placed in the state's labor law certification," Souter said. "Union speech and nothing else, seems to have been on the legislative mind."
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