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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Easy Come, Easy Go? Unions’ Suit to Kill Indiana’s Right-to-Work Law Moves Forward

Just as many Hoosiers  get used to the idea of not being forced to pay union dues as a condition of employment under Indiana’s new Right-to-Work law, according to a Circuit Court Judge, a suit filed by the United Steelworkers to strike down the new law can move forward.   Until earlier this year, Indiana workers who went to work at a unionized company could be forced to pay union dues and fees as a condition of employment—which meant, if they refused to pay union dues or fees, the union in their workplace could have them fired.
However, when the state’s legislature made Indiana the 23rd state in the nation to prohibit unions to force workers to pay dues as a condition of employment, knowing their incomes would dramatically drop, unions vowed to fight the change.
Almost immediately, Indiana unions sued to kill the Right-to-Work law, claiming that the freedom to choose to pay a union (as opposed to being forced) was “akin to slavery.”   To Read More….. 

My Take - And a judge bought into this?

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