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The government employee union with more power than the American people Part 4



One of the rights held most dear by most Americans is the right to free speech, which the SEIU has been proven several times to be trying to hinder. These court cases are used in briefings to describe how unions are subverting the will of the people they are supposed to represent to push political goals the members do not advocate. It is time the general public realizes how the leaders of these unions are using their power to harm their members.

First Amendment

Here, via a Supreme Court case briefing, is how the SEIU and other unions hinder their members' First Amendment rights.

Finally, the decision to grant review in this case implicates hundreds of thousands of public sector workers in state and local government throughout the nation. In the wake of the Janus decision government unions across the country have been actively engaged in erecting bulwarks against any diminution in their power. Government unions have engaged in active campaigns to circumvent Janus to the detriment of the First Amendment rights of all public employees.

Unions have a built-in incentive to keep members paying as long as possible – since any delay ultimately leads to more money and thus more political power. The goal of keeping the funds flowing has led directly to myriad abuses of public workers’ rights since the Janus case was decided. This includes the forgery of non-consenting members’ names on union authorization cards, (Ochoa v. SEIU Local 775, 19-35870 (9th Cir.); Araujo v. SEIU Local 775 et al, 20-cv-05012-TOR (E.D. Wa); Maria Gatdula v. SEIU Local 775 et al, 20-cv-00476 (W.D. Wa); Sharrie Yates v. AFSCME Council 28, et al, 20-35879 (9th Cir.); Quezambra v. United Domestic Workers of America, AFSCME Local 3930, et al, No. 20-55643 (9th Cir.); Wright v. SEIU Local 503, et al, No. 20-35878 (9th Cir.); Schiewe v. SEIU Local 503 et al, No. 20‐35882 (9th Cir.); Zielinski v. SEIU 503 et al, No. 20-36076; (9th Cir.); Jarret v. SEIU Local 503, No. 21-35133 (9th Cir.); Trees v. SEIU 503, 6:21-cv-00468-SI (Dist. Or.)); enforcing nonexistent escape periods (Laird v. UTLA et al, 2:21-cv02313-FLA-AS (Cent. Dist. Ca.)); refusal to communicate with employees regarding how the employee may resign membership or other procedures for exercising their rights (Bourque et al v. EAA et al, 2:21-cv-04006JAK-PVC (Cent. Dist. Ca.)); and even using membership cards to justify taking funds dedicated to specific political issues or candidate races (Espinoza v. UAPD, et al, 8:21-cv-01898 (Cent. Dist. Ca); Cram et al v. SEIU 503 et al, 6:20-cv-00544-MK (Dist. Or.)).

Government unions have also actively leveraged their political connections to enact new legal regimes designed to encourage government union membership and to restrict the ability of workers to exercise their First Amendment rights. A prime example of these efforts is legislation unions lobbied for in Oregon to restrict employees’ constitutional claims to the administrative Oregon Employment Relations Board, denying employees their right to a federal forum.4 Another example is a series of statutes enacted by California, not coincidentally, on the very same day the Janus decision was issued. Cal. S.B. 866 (2018), includes Cal. Gov’t Code § 1157.10, which shifts the burden to show affirmative consent to pay union dues off of the union, and shifts it to employees. California also burdens employees’ ability to make the free and voluntary decision to waive their First Amendment rights by giving unions exclusive access to new employee orientations (see e.g., Cal. Gov’t Code § 3556), and by compelling public employers to provide unions with employees’ sensitive personal information so the unions can more easily communicate with employees – whether or not they are union members (see e.g., Cal. Gov’t Code § 3558; see also Or. Rev. Stat. § 243.804).

There are several reasons for people to know about this issue. One, people need to make sure they do not fall under the power of unions, so their dues are not used for nefarious purposes. Second, these unions need to have their power stripped so they quit going against the will of the American people. There are other reasons, but it comes down to that the SEIU and other unions are a branch of the Democrat Party, just as other groups have been. They work to subvert the will of the citizens to take away freedom and strengthen the Democrat Party.

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