1173 petitioners told the U.S. Supreme Court to Honor Unions!

Dear friend, It has been April since the Supreme Court ruled 4-4 on the Friedrichs case. While their decision stopped this case, it is clear that more suits and other attacks are coming, on the state and national levels. Thank you for signing the petition, Reject Friedrichs, Honor Unions. You joined 1,172 others in sending the justices a message. The petition along with the attached cover letter was mailed to the Court. Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity (OWLS) sees this petition as part of an ongoing, larger effort to beat back No "Rights at Work." Please stay in touch. Let us know what you are doing as well! Owls@riseup.net and OrganizedWorkers/facebook. www.organizedworkers.org PO Box 9027 Seattle, WA 98109 In solidarity OWLS April 26, 2016 Chief Justice Roberts & Associate Justices 1 First St. NE, P.O. Washington D.C. 20453 Dear Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justices: We, the Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity (OWLS), respectfully submit this petition signed by over eleven hundred people from all over the U.S. calling on the Court to reject the Friederichs case in its entirety, and to instead uphold the Appeals Court decision that upheld Abood v. Detroit Board of Education. Although, we, as workers and union members, are relieved by the recent 4-4 Supreme Court ruling on the case, we feel this is but a temporary reprieve in the attacks on unionism. And clearly, Friedrichs vs. California Teachers Association is an attack on public unions and all unions. Fairness and justice should be two of the highest moral values governing our nation, and as workers, we honor them deeply. But, the Friedrichs case is neither fair nor just to workers, union and non-union. All workers should share in the costs of achieving wage and benefit gains. Encouraging Free Ridership (free loading) in regard to unions is not fair or just. Everyone must share the cost to achieve the gain. Unionism has been under strong attack for decades and now wealth inequality is the highest since the 1900s era of Robber Barons. Unions were formed to counter the awful power of corporate wealth. A worker, standing alone, hat in hand, before the Boss without union representation, is a worker without bargaining power. The deep pocketed interests like the Center for Individual Rights, funding the Friedrichs case, would celebrate the disenfranchisement of the collective power that workers gain by joining unions. ‘Right to work' is not a creation of working people, but the brain child of businessmen like racist bigot Vance Muse. Their goal was to destroy unions and segregate workers by the color of their skin. These racist roots of 'right to work' should be enough for the Court to reject Friedrich's outright. The Court should never have heard Friedrich's in the first place. In conclusion, we the undersigned firmly believe these laws based on systemic racism and union busting are totally unfair and unjust. The Supreme Court should be, instead, ruling all 'right to work' laws as unconstitutional. We respectfully thank those Justices that rejected Friedrichs, but we also call upon the Supreme Court to never hear cases of this nature again. Respectfully, Organized Workers for Labor Solidarity P.O. Box 9027 Seattle, WA 98109