May. 25, 2004 - 19:44 MST

THE WONDERING JEW

Or is it ?

Rob has passed some uncomfortable time since yesterday, he is still in ICU. A bit cranky today he wrote on his pad. Crotchety about the feeding tube they put down his nose also. Seems like the family is spelling each other, both on helping which is so good and visiting, he needs the only thing we can really give, moral support. Time passes, we pray.

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Giving someone the right to do something doesn't necessarily mean that you can see that it gets done. An article in the Rocky Mountain News today by Karen Abbot.

Payroll deduction challenge upheld

Ruling reinstates state workers' suit over union dues

In part:

Colorado state employees can sue the governor for ending automatic deductions of union dues from their paychecks, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Monday.

The high court noted that union dues had been deducted from state employees paychecks since 1937. Gov. Bill Owens ended the practice in 2001 with an executive order.

The late Warren Martin, then a Denver District Court judge threw out the lawsuit without giving a reason. The Colorado Court of Appeals said he was right to throw out case because the state employees and unions lacked legal standing to sue over the stopped deductions.

The Colorado Supreme Court overturned those rulings, reinstating the lawsuit.

"The Supreme Court decision was on a very narrow point of law, and the governor remains confident that the matter will ultimately be resolved in the state's favor," Owen's spokesman Dan Hopkins said in a statement.

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I can't remember reading anything in the paper about our Gov. stopping the practice and funny, I don't remember seeing anything in the paper about the employees and unions filing suit, nor did I see anything in the paper about the late Warren Martin throwing out the lawsuit -- no reason given. I am glad they pursued the lawsuit and it went to the Supreme Court.

I can only state things according to my experience of course, every company I have ever worked for that had a union took union dues out of the employees pay. Hell the companies, city and state governments and the feds take out income tax and all the other things from paychecks, why can't they and our dear government keep on subtracting union dues from the paychecks ? United Way and all that other stuff gets taken out ?

I have a sneaking idea of how it will go. A big plea from the Gov and the other Republicans in state congress will put up a big smoke screen and say that, "Our government is so poor, so broke that we have to use every means at hand to SAVE money." Even though Brer Bush says the economy is booming in our country and production is up (less employees, more profit for the few).

Seemingly current thinking goes this way, "Maybe unions had a good point in the old days, but in this modern society there is no need to have unions." Yeah right . . . . even non-union people get the benefits from the fighting the unions did in the past and most unions are trying to maintain what unions paid for in blood and broken lives in the past. But the big money pressure happens already and the citizens of this country are being deprived of many rights. Looks like it will continue too until the average citizen works 16 hours a day, goes to the bosses church, yadda, yadda. This whole thing seems to be such a snide slap at working folks, and what makes it bad is that the employees and the unions don't have the money the state does -- so who wins ?

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