Union vs Indiana: Lawsuit Claims ‘Right-to-Work’ Law Violates Anti-Slavery Amendment
- Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:00pm by
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A labor union has amended its lawsuit against the state of Indiana to include that along with being a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment (equal protection), the state’s recently passed “right-to-work” law also turns union workers into slaves.
“In a lawsuit against three Indiana government officials, a labor union alleged on Wednesday that its constitutional rights under the Thirteenth Amendment — which outlawed ‘slavery’ and ‘involuntary servitude’ — are violated whenever its members are forced to work alongside nonunion employees,” the Daily Caller’s David Martosko reports.
Yes. The lawsuit argues that being forced to work alongside “scabs” (i.e. non-union employees) is pretty much the same thing as slavery.
“The International Union of Operating Engineers, whose members work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics and construction surveyors, sued Indiana’s governor [Mitch Daniels], attorney general, and labor commissioner in February,” Martosko reports.
The February lawsuit claimed that Indiana’s “right-to-work” law was “unconstitutional” because it was a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of “equal protection” under the law.
“But an amended complaint filed [last] Wednesday added a Thirteenth Amendment claim as well,” the Daily Caller reports.
“The new lawsuit suggests that when nonunion employees earn higher salaries and better benefits because of the union’s negotiation on behalf of its members, the union has been forced to work for those nonunion employees for free,” the report adds.
Again, just to make sure we’re clear on what’s being argued here: the union lawsuit claims Indiana’s “right-to-work” law violates the Thirteenth Amendment because union workers are “forced to work without compensation,” therefore making them slaves.
Gov. Mitch Daniels (R-IN)
“In this case, the Defendants have exacted compulsory service and/or involuntary servitude from the Union through the combination of the passage of the Right to Work law and the existing federal requirement of the duty of fair representation,” the amended complaint reads.
“Through these laws, the Union is compelled to furnish services to all persons in bargaining units that it represents, but it may not require payment for those services because of the Right to Work law. The statute also requires dues-paying union members to work alongside non-union personnel, and that is compulsory service and/or involuntary servitude within the meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment,” the complaint adds.
Indiana is the 23rd U.S. state to pass a “right-to-work” law.
See Page 26: Read the union’s “slavery” lawsuit against Indiana’s right-to-work law (via the Daily Caller):
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Comments (97)
TarheelFlyer
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 1:43amI didn’t understand that once you joined a Union you:
A: Couldn’t ever leave.
B: Had to stay in that job for life.
I had no idea that Unions required you to stay no matter what happened or who you had to work with or for.
Report Post »Noonien_Soong
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:07amI looked up the word “Conscription” and it appears this is what unions are engaging in. It is really an archaic term to enlist persons into a fiefdom like organizations such as unions.To enter into a contractual work atmosphere is legal, it does negate one’s activities on the outside though.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:25amIf non union people are the “ scabs ” then union people must be the “ infected wound ”…… They ruined my home town, along with Democrats………
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:42amThe right to not have to pay to be employed is Constitutional. Forcing people to pay to work is Unconstitutional looks like the supreme court needs to chime in on this one.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:44amAnd the union is using the Harley emblem as it’s sign IS HARLEY another unionized Communist force. Lots of people I know would burn their bikes if that is the case.
Report Post »bumfuzeled
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 10:55amNeither A nor B are correct but some states require you to be a union slave simply to be employed. Right to Work states afford freedom for workers and employers equally.
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 11:26am@johnjamison
I think they are. If not many of their factories probably are. That’s one reason why I wont ride factory built bikes. (they’re cheap and ugly for another reason) I got a 72 Bonneville Motor that will go into a custom frame I’ll build myself after I rebuild the motor.
http://www.clubchopper.com/photopost/data/3018/7738lasvegas_bikefest_080.jpg
Report Post »2centsworth
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:04pmConsidering that those of us who actually PAY taxes have been reduced to “sharecroppers”, I think the Union bosses are doing well, but sacrificing the rank and file jobs with their ridiculous lawsuits. It seems as though those that head the unions will spend money on anything (themselves, politicians, lawsuits, paid “activists”) but the pensions and benefits of their members. Unions are the 9%’s of the workforce with security, pensions, benefits and base pay beyond what anyone else has. Maybe they should count their corrupt blessings and do their work.
Report Post »AProudConservative
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:26pmIt’s really simple. Unionism = Communsim. Any questions? No? Class dismissed.
Report Post »Balpit
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:44pmUnions now do what they were created to prevent.
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 4:45pmThe only thing unions should be allowed to do to any extent is improve working conditions. As it stands now they’re just a mafia with political power.
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 7:56pmI don’t understand the statement about being forced to work by a scab. When I was member of the AFLCIO you became a scab when they went on strike and you went across the picket line to work. When Texas became a right to work state I got out as fast as I could. It was like getting a nice big raise even back then.
Report Post »KevINtampa
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:54amNow that the Hoosier state has gone Right to Work maybe the GM and Ford pistons will be manufactured again in Fort Wayne. Maybe the basketball team of the same name will move back. Maybe Caterpillar will reopen Indiana plants. Maybe Dana will reopen shop there as well. The unions drove all of those jobs out of Indiana, shame really. Fort Wayne used to be such a shining star of hard industry, then the unions came down from Detroit and decimated the work opportunities. In the 90′s crime began to sky rocket in Northern Indiana, again coming from Detroit, and it hasn’t gotten better. It’s a shame.
Report Post »Mike Austin
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 8:06amWe can only hope.
Report Post »Tribal Warrior
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 7:00pmHeck, have you seen South Bend Area West all the way to East Chicago? Unions ‘destroyed’ that hard working area too. I’m hoping right to work draws in more jobs here in Indiana, it most likely will, but will it even matter if the USD is shunned and Oil is $150+?
Report Post »lassiegirldawn
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:29amWhy when it says right to work, if you are not union, you cannot work. I am sure there are people in small business that would not have a job if these thugs pushed their way in. Never does the worker get back the money lost during a strike, but those fat bastards running the unions get every cent of their pay, probably with bonus.
Report Post »Ramv36
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:21amIs it not interesting that labor unions are the first and loudest to scream for worker’s rights, yet they are also the most vocal opponents of having the right of ALL workers to work?
There seems to be a cognitive dissonance there.
Report Post »NWWADD
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:21amScrew UNIONS…… They are ruining my industry and they and making the poor, poorer. I’m going to stop here before I say what I really think!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:17amGod above now they are grasping for any straws they can; the unions must be sensing their pending doom and are making the final grab for power. May the unions lose across the board.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:29amAgreed, that’s a pretty pathetic argument.
Report Post »AnAmerican111
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:14amUnions and OBAMA
Report Post »2 Big Lies made for each other!
One more pathetic than the next!
Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:09amAnd here, I thought now that the TRW law was passed that all the fireworks and drama were over, but this is only now getting good. I can’t wait to see how this turns out.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:18amI hope it ends with the unions in utter defeat and disgrace; they need to be broken.
Report Post »Lesbian Packing Hollow Points
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:37amIndeed. I’m with you 100% on that, Snow Leopard.
And I clicked Reply a little too quick on that. TRW = RTW
Report Post »mdeputy7
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 9:31amLiving in Indiana, I am so glad that this was passed. It doesn’t actually affect me personally, but the state will be so much better for it. Watching these unions flail about trying to muster up any sort of attack on those that are against them is like watching a mafia movie lol. We have the godfather here trying to force people to pay him for “protection.” Isn’t that basically what these unions are doing??
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:07amHave these lefties been declared officially insane and committed to an asylum yet? Way past over due IMHO.
Report Post »Maxim Crux
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:04amYou are a slave if you are forced to pay extortion dues in order to hold a position at a particular job controlled by the unions.
Report Post »The Gooch
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 3:12amYep. That’s exactly what the unions are asserting. Union members are slaves. The article doesn’t read the scabs are slaves; it reads the unions are identifying union members as slaves in the suit. Wacky. Somewhere a lawyer is drinking or smoking something that takes the human mind to Topsy-Turvy land. It’s a land where fat, balding men are surrounded by fawning nymphs and farts are served as a gourmet experience.
Report Post »Brooke Lorren
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:00amYou could argue the opposite too. Having to pay union dues involuntarily is involuntary servitude as well.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 12:33amI would hope that will brought up in court as well, just by our side.
Report Post »HumbleCitizen
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 6:21amUnion rep entered my home and notified me I was going to pay union dues whether I liked it or not. The unions did alot of good in their early days (and still do in limited ways) but for the most part (today) are little more than thugs and criminals.
Report Post »Gup20
Posted on April 24, 2012 at 11:38amMakes you wonder — if the individual mandate for Obamacare gets struck down by the supreme court in June, could that be used to show that compelling a person to pay dues to a union is also illegal?
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:58pmThe poblem here is the Unions think they are the only ones with a right to work. The problem with most union labor is ten stand around while 3 or 4 does all the work. Same way with many government workers. They do not want a right to work, they want a right to loaf.
Report Post »welovetheUSA
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:56pmHa…wrong, 14th what…………are these people born stupid or does it come from being a useful union idoit?
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:52pmSeems like their moms had to bet another job to support them and they are mad because she is not home to fetch and carry for them. Those complaining would not work in a pie factory.
Report Post »REPUB1
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:51pm“The statute also requires dues-paying union members to work alongside non-union personnel”
Report Post »how about “forcing Non-union members to work along side of union members??? and forcing companys into having Union Members only at their plants??? that is EXTORTION in my book??
see little minds think alike, meaning unions are DESTROYING this REPUBLIC!!!!!!! and where do ya think the unions get a million dollars to Obummer???
RugDog
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:50pmUnion members NEED protection from unions because they are to stupid and inept to hold on to a job on their own.
Time to eliminate unions. Period.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:45pmUm…I really don’t know where to begin on this one. Let’s just say I might have to blow off steam at a shooting range if this union actually gets their way. Personally, I see it as slavery to compel all workers to join the union since they are being required to pay for services they don’t want. Uh oh…It just occurred to me that this is exactly the same argument that was used to justify Obamacare’s mandate.
Report Post »glashole
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:53pmAnd the bastard childs tax plan, and CO 2 BS and all of his other commie nonsense. The unions, espically the public unions, are of little service to their members. It is a socialist front to grab power.
Report Post »elphi43
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:45pmThe unions will say anything to get their way and the DNC will lead the charge! But change the laws to stop the politicians from getting contributions from all but private citizens, with a $2,000 limit per year and unions will go back to being a private entity instead of DNC money-laundry operation.
Report Post »discus02
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:41pmThe unions need to be put in their place! Fight back tax payers unless you want a Greece in the USA.
Report Post »Unions no you are not entitled!
chainsawharry
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:23pmNext thing the Unions will argue before the courts is that just showing up for work is Slavery. Just another example of the “great legal minds” being produced and graduated from the Legal Mills. Unfortunately, there are judges sitting on the bench today with similar mental abberations.
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:47pmSeems to me UNIONS are slavery mills
They take your dues and you get ZIP
Unions pouring buckets of money into Wisconsin
Hope Scott Walker wins!!!!
OMG 2012
Report Post »Trance
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:19pmUnions is crazy, ya’ll!
Report Post »Marci
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:18pmReally? Wow. And I am willing to bet some judge takes it seriously. This is the most frivolous lawsuits with NO factual basis that I have seen in a long time.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:14pmI hope this blows up in the faces of these sleazy Far Left union members . Any black person should be incensed with the comparison of a union protected worker being compared to a slave. This is outrageous. Talk about belittling the condition of slavery . And these jerks are Democrats ? Reminds me of the rush to judgement on Zimmerman. At least those Democrats did not know he was half Hispanic..am sure they figured with that name he was some rich Jewish guy living in a gated community. We know how Democrats feel about those two categories.. Our so-called Democrats…the most biased, divisive, predictable race / class baiters…
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:14pmAs usual, obama‘s lazy unionist turdlickers are simply reminding everyone that they don’t really like to work.
Report Post »trueamerican40
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:34pmYep. When their not working, they’re rioting. This behavior goes back to socialist europeans.
Report Post »rsanchez1
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:13pmOk, unions, seriously? Have fun being laughed out of court.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:21pmThey have it bass ackwards. Being forced to belong to a union as a condition of employment is slavery.
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:24pmHope that you’re right, however too many judges and law makers are in the pockets of the unions. The unions have more powers in country than most people realize.
Report Post »mharry860
Posted on April 23, 2012 at 11:43pmThank you Booger71,you have to realize most of these union pukes have an IQ, just slightly above my Downs Syndrome sister, maybe.
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