CELEBRATING THE U.S. SUPREME COURT'S JANUS DECISION! # 2

CELEBRATING THE U.S SUPREME COURT'S JANUS DECISION! # 2

IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONEBLOGSPOT.COM- - FLAG DAY, JUNE 14, 2018

Preface:

    In pursuit of the truth - What does that mean? It means that what is written is valid and true, if it is written in the spirit of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's book, "Co-Workers of the Truth" Meditations For Every Day of the Year" Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1992 - since 2005.

      The U.S. Conference of Bishops filed a friend of the court brief in favor of the union in the hotly debated Janus vs. American Federation of State and Municipal Employees, Council 31, case over mandatory union "agency fees" now before the Supreme Court. This was a mistake.

The Following are Excerpts of Letters Written Years Ago:

A. Industrial type unionism was never intended for public employees, least of all school teachers. Even Franklin Delano Roosevelt would turn over in his grave. I can understand that voluntary unionism is as American as apple pie. Forced unionism is not. Enter the Rodda Act of 1975. This collective bargaining law for union teachers was approved by the California legislature and signed by Governor Jerry Brown, and previously vetoed by Governor Reagan...

     What the Rodda Act does is a form of control - muzzling, cloning and politicizing the profession. All of this is done for the welfare of the teacher. Where is the student? .... When I retired in 1986, we did not have agency fees in Westminster, California. Also, my yearly pay raises were higher under the Winton Act than after unionism in 1976. (Memorial Day, 1999.)

B. The Rodda Act (S.B. 160) repeals the Winton Act as July 1, 1976. The new law calls for the selection of an exclusive bargaining agent. Under the Winton Act all qualified organizations have a voice in matters relating to working conditions.

    Individuals cannot represent themselves directly to the employer; under the Rodda Act after an exclusive agent has been recognized. (Art. 4, Sec. 3543). Under the Winton Act teachers retain the right to represent themselves individually.

    The Rodda Act includes a clause for "organizational security". Teachers can be required to pay agency fees as a condition of continued employment. The Winton Act allowed teachers to choose to join or not to join and did not legalize assessments or penalties....

    The Rodda Act seems appropriate for a totalitarian state and not for a democracy and republican form of government. What right do the Democratic and Republican legislators have to force a law upon professional teachers which will literally change the profession to a union teacher job?...(April 15,1976)

C.  I have sent the following letter to Governor Brown. One of the most destructive pieces of legislation encouraged and signed by you in 1975 was S.B. 160. This is a teacher collective bargaining bill dubbed the Rodda Act. This law is an assault on academic freedom, professional teacher integrity and quality education. Your signed law replace the respected Winton Act on July 1, 1976. This same day the Los Angeles Grand Jury recommended the repeal of S.B. 160. The Rodda Act continues to be challenged in the courts on twenty-one constitutional violations.... (Labor Day, Sept. 6, 1976)

    Common sense and principle seem to be lacking in your decision. The best interests of the people of California have been injured by your political ambitions in this decision. I urge you to repeal SB. 160. I don't want  to become a molded and programmed union organization first educator. I will fight to remain free and independent-minded professional teacher.... The principles of freedom and cooperation, not collectivism and coercion, are our heritage and legacy for future generations. Instead you and others have played politics with the education of children. This is criminal....

George H. Kubeck