Brickbat: Union Dues

A new Illinois law makes it illegal to interfere with, obstruct, or impede a picket line, demonstration, or protest. It isn't clear if this can be used against counter protesters. Another new state law says that independent contractors count as "newly hired employees" under the Unemployment Insurance Act. And another new law gives contractors and subcontractors who are paid less than the "prevailing wage" the right to sue for the difference.

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[Don't look at me!]

I feel certain this will boost employment.

[Social Justice is neither]

I'm ste it will, just not in Illinois.

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[MoreFreedom]

Yes, you are correct. That Illinois law will increase employment outside Illinois, especially as good workers leave IL as they have been doing at a very fast rate.

[Adans smith]

It seems that their main goal is to make up more reasons to move out of that state.

[InsaneTrollLogic]

Illinois seems to be in a race with California for who can come up with the stupidest, dumbest, most unconstitutional laws in the US.

[Minadin]

Every single state that borders Illinois gained population last year.

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/all-neighbor-states-grow-as-illinois-population-shrinks-by-32826/

[Chumby]

Illinois may be extremely new jobs unfriendly but at least they are still welcoming to illegals.

[Don't look at me!]

That’s the important part.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Food trucks!

[MoreFreedom]

You missed the news stories about black residents of Chicago protesting the money being spent on illegals.

It's strange but true, it was just black people, and instead they wanted to spend the money on reparations. Which I also find strange since black people owned slaves in the US (e.g., see the African-American Slave Owners article in Wikipedia). And many whites have been slaves as documented in the "White Slavery" article. There's no fair way to have reparations for slavery.

[markm23]

Reparations for slavery are simple: x$ for each year you were enslaved, paid by those that enslaved you. Oh wait, there are no living persons who were enslaved or held slaves in the USA? That's even simpler - no one is responsible for their ancestors, so no one is affected...

Unless you want to try to get reparations from the Muslim countries that don't enforce their laws against slavery against the more backwards of their people. I'm pretty sure you don't need any new laws to sue if that were happening in the USA, but bring a case over something that happened in Western Sahara to a US federal or state court and they'll tell you it's not in their jurisdiction. They won't bother to hear a case when they can't send a marshal to enforce the verdict...

[Vernon Depner]

The last extant country to officially outlaw slavery was Mauritania in 1983.

[Agammamon]

Well, sure, *welcoming* - as long as they don't actually come over though;)

[Longtobefree]

Never, ever, vote for a democrat.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Poor rural Illinois.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"It isn't clear if this can be used against counter protesters."

Every revolution hates the counter-revolution.

[SRG2]

Idiotic, and in the case of the picket line law, probably unconstitutional on grounds of vagueness.

[markm23]

No, blatantly unconstitutional on the grounds that it is a restriction on speech based on viewpoint discrimination.

The Supreme Court will only overturn that law, but they should fine the legislators who wrote it to repay those who had to take it to court, and issue an injunction banning the authors from proposing or voting on legislation until they have demonstrated that they have learned the Constitution and will abide by it in the future.

[MoreFreedom]

Good point. What if the picket line goes around your car, or if someone in the building needs to get to a hospital or needs emergency services and the picket line doesn't accomodate that?

The question of counter protests and who has the right to march in a specific spot is unanswered, as is the right of a property owner to tell trespassers (or striking workers) to get off the property, in which case the law disrespects property laws.

[Longtobefree]

So what happens when an abortion patient, who can't be interfered with, attempts to interfere with (cross) a picket line, which can't be done?

[Vernon Depner]

Shoot their dogs.

[markm23]

Which is the greater leftist cause?