{"id":45463,"date":"2014-06-30T09:16:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T14:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45463"},"modified":"2014-06-30T09:44:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T14:44:11","slug":"looks-like-the-dfl-is-going-to-have-to-find-2-mill-somewhere-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=45463","title":{"rendered":"Looks Like The DFL Is Going To Have To Find $2 Mill Somewhere Else!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/U\/US_SUPREME_COURT_UNION_FEES?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2014-06-30-10-08-45\">SCOTUS rules 5-4<\/a>\u00a0that forcing private independent healthcare contractors (and, presumably, child-care workers) to join unions violates the First Amendment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The ruling is a financial blow to labor unions that have bolstered their ranks in Illinois and other states by signing up hundreds of thousands of home health care workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The case was brought by a group of Illinois in-home care workers who said they didn&#8217;t want to pay fees related to collective bargaining. They claimed the &#8220;fair share fees&#8221; violate their constitutional rights by compelling them to associate with the union.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to a local attorney involved in the case, the opinion distinguishes between actual public employees and those &#8211; like daycare providers and Personal Care Attendants (PCAs) that are employed by their customers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota&#8217;s PCA\/daycare unionization law is a dead issue now &#8211; as is the <del>Messinger<\/del> Dayton administration&#8217;s litigation to defend it.<\/p>\n<p>Up next, Hobby Lobby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SCOTUS rules 5-4\u00a0that forcing private independent healthcare contractors (and, presumably, child-care workers) to join unions violates the First Amendment: The ruling is a financial blow to labor unions that have bolstered their ranks in Illinois and other states by signing up hundreds of thousands of home health care workers. \u00a0The case was brought by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotus","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45463"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45474,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45463\/revisions\/45474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}