Forced Unionization By Rule of Law? WTF!!

Over at Cato At Liberty there is a great post about forced unionization.  It raises the Constitutional issues of equal protection in the fact that individual rights were ignored by their representative in allowing a union to start collecting dues from individuals without their consent.  In effect they are only representing a particular group and giving them de facto taxing powers.

Just one more example of blatant ignoring and trampling upon Constitutional rights.

Trampled Constitution

Here's an excerpt (please click text or picture to read entire article):

Over the past decade, more than a dozen states have forced independent contractors who are paid through Medicaid to join public-sector unions.In 2003, Illinois unionized home healthcare workers and imbued the Service Employees International Union with the right to collect compulsory fees from the workers’ paychecks. Democracy is thus being turned on its head: the elected representatives for the people of Illinois have chosen a sub-representative for some of the people and given that sub-representative a taxing power.

In so doing, they have severely impaired home healthcare workers’ First Amendment right of association and the right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Without limits on government’s ability to forcibly unionize people who indirectly receive government-funded compensation (an increasingly large group), more and more citizens will have to interact with their representatives through a government-designated intermediary (a union); our democracy will become even more dominated by special interests than it is now.

Remember this when you vote in November!!