"Pay union dues or change religions" struck down


Religious exemptions should be universal

I have to wonder what the founders of the first American labor unions would have thought of this.

A legal challenge mounted by a teacher in southern Ohio, who said a union official told her to pay dues or change religions, has prompted a federal district court to strike down a state law that allowed only those public employees who belonged to certain denominations the right to claim a religious objection to paying union dues.

This decision is important not only for it's effects on unfair labor laws and union malpractice, but because it helps drive home the point that government has no authority to decide what is and is not an acceptable religion.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Thu - June 28, 2007 at 03:07 PM  Tag


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