Indiana’s operating engineers’ union has filed a suit against the state’s new right-to-work law. Among other counts in the lawsuit, they allege that providing union-negotiated benefits to non-union workers toiling alongside union members violates the 13th Amendment. That is, because non-unionized workers aren’t paying dues in exchange for the union’s negotiations, union workers are being enslaved.
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By David Martosko, The Daily Caller 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 “involuntar... Read Post
The union is arguing that non-union members in right-to-work Indiana get the benefit of union contracts without being union members (when the union negotiates a contract it typically applies to all employees even if they’re not unio... Read Post
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation In response to union bosses’ federal lawsuit against Indiana’s popular Right to Work law, a group of Indiana workers from across the state are filing an amicus brief in support of thei... Read Post