Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Fine by us

Want to organize a union for National Guard personnel serving on state orders? Be my guest, says the U.S. Department of Justice, according to this report. Excerpt:

DoJ lawyers asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by state employee unions in Connecticut, saying that “the Government agrees” with them. A federal law prohibiting members of the military from organizing unions “does not apply to Guard members on state active duty or in the Inactive National Guard,” DoJ lawyers wrote in their filing.

Whether state law will get in the way is another matter.

Score one for the Yale Law School Veterans Legal Services Clinic.

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