{"id":179874,"date":"2017-09-28T20:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T01:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/28\/oh-crap-3\/"},"modified":"2017-09-28T20:35:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T01:35:00","slug":"oh-crap-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/09\/28\/oh-crap-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Crap!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/courts_law\/supreme-court-to-hear-new-challenge-to-labor-unions\/2017\/09\/28\/8b63b732-a453-11e7-b573-8ec86cdfe1ed_story.html\">hear a challenge to public labor unions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With Gorsuch on the board, I expect a 5-4 decision saying that unions cannot collect fees to cover the cost of representing non members, effectively gutting&nbsp; public labor unions: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Its conservative majority restored, the Supreme Court said Thursday it will return to an issue with the potential to financially cripple Democratic-leaning labor unions that represent government workers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">After the justices deadlocked 4-4 in a similar case last year, the high court will consider a free-speech challenge from workers who object to paying money to unions they don\u2019t support.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The court, with conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch on board, could decide to overturn a 40-year-old Supreme Court ruling that allows public sector unions to collect fees from non-members to cover the costs of negotiating contracts for all employees.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The union fees case is among nine new cases the justices added to their docket for the term that begins on Monday. Others deal with a defendant\u2019s right to direct his own defense, police searches of vehicles and overtime pay for service advisers at car dealerships.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unions, and public employees, are going to get absolutely screwed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to public labor unions. With Gorsuch on the board, I expect a 5-4 decision saying that unions cannot collect fees to cover the cost of representing non members, effectively gutting&nbsp; public labor unions: Its conservative majority restored, the Supreme Court said Thursday it will return to an issue &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[407,465,442],"class_list":["post-179874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-justice","tag-labor","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}