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Supreme court rejects California union law

By Jason Siegel

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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a California law that prohibited employers from using state money to negatively influence employees view on unions, today. The justices ruled 7-2 that the state is barred from regulating union-related activities by the National Labor Relations Act.

Opponents of the AB 1889, including the Bush Administration and U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said that the California's law violated employer's freedom of speech. California's lawyers argued that the law aimed to keep the state neutral in labor disputes by not subsidizing employer's union activities, Reuters reported.

California passed the law in 2000. A federal judge ruled against the law in 2002, but a full 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld it.

Justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dissented.

New York has a similar law and 17 other states supported California, according to Reuters.

The Scotus Blog has the three other U.S. Supreme Court decisions, also on workplace rights, that were released today.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on June 19, 2008 (boomark / email).

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