Unions have lost hundreds of thousands of members since SCOTUS decision on forced dues

Three of the largest public sector unions in the United States have lost hundreds of thousands of members and agency fee payers since the Supreme Court banned forced dues last year, according to data reviewed by the Mackinac Center.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 27, 2018, in the case Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees ruled that forcing an employee to pay dues to a union in order to hold a government job violates that employee’s First Amendment rights.

The court ruling freed millions of public employees from having to pay union dues and fees in order to hold a job working for the government. Federal filings reviewed by the Mackinac Center suggest that public sector unions have taken a significant hit from losing members and fee payers since the decision.

Annual federal filings show that the National Education Association (NEA); American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME); and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have lost a combined 278,804 members and fee payers from each organization’s last report before the Janus decision to the first report after it.

The membership and agency fee payer losses amount to the three unions losing about $181 million in annual revenue, according to the Mackinac Center.

The unions did not immediately return a request for comment.

https://www.bizpacreview.com/2019/04/19/unions-have-lost-hundreds-of-thousands-of-members-since-scotus-decision-on-forced-dues-746925

Nearly 100,000 Pentagon whistleblower complaints have been silenced – Lee Camp

A month ago the Government Accountability Office came out with a report showing the total number of whistleblower complaints over the past five years at the Department of Defense. It’s nearly 100,000. Here’s the only part of the report that references that number:

“The Department of Defense Inspector General identified 8 substantiated violations of whistleblower confidentiality between fiscal years 2013 and 2018, representing approximately .01 percent of the 95,613 contacts handled by the Inspector General during that time…”

95,613 whistleblower complaints over five years.

Sadly, the Government Accountability Office was trying to brag in that sentence. They were proudly stating, “We only breached the confidentiality of .01 percent of our 95,000 whistleblower complaints. Aren’t we heroes?!”

To try to get the 95,000 number to make a little more sense, that averages out to a whistleblower every six minutes of every weekday for five straight years.

So let’s sum this up, shall we? The Pentagon sucks up 55% of all the discretionary tax money we pay to our government (thanks to our bought-off Congress who receive more Christmas cards from weapons contractors than they do from relatives). Those who work at the Pentagon have no idea where or how the money is spent. They make up many of the numbers resulting in tens of trillions of dollars of unaccounted-for adjustments. They lose helicopters, buildings and, in a few instances, even nuclear warheads. There is an unimaginable amount of fraud and corruption at every level and literally thousands of whistleblowers have tried to come forward every single year – one every six minutes. When they do take that incredibly brave action, over 90% of the claims are dismissed without even being investigated.

https://www.rt.com/op-ed/456997-whistleblower-complaints-pentagon-money/

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Ex-Obama White House counsel's trial set for August

Former White House counsel Gregory Craig will go to trial in August to face charges of lying to investigators who were working for special counsel Robert Mueller, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., said Friday.

Craig, who worked under former President Obama from 2009-2010, is scheduled to begin his trial at 9:30 a.m. on Aug. 12, according to court filings first reported by The New York Times. He is accused of lying and withholding information about former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's lobbying work in Ukraine from investigators working for Mueller's now-shuttered probe.

Craig pleaded not guilty to the charges earlier this month and called the accusations "unjustified."

“This prosecution is unprecedented and unjustified,” Craig said at the time. “I am confident that both the judge and the jury will agree with me.”

Manafort, who remains imprisoned after being found guilty of a slew of financial crimes related to the lobbying work for pro-Russia politicians in Ukraine, originally hired Craig's former law firm to write a report defending the Ukrainian government's decision to imprison its former prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, who was a political opponent of Manafort's client.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who also oversaw Manafort's charges in D.C., is overseeing Craig's case.

His former law firm, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, agreed to register as a foreign agent with as part of a settlement with the Justice Department earlier this year.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/439792-ex-obama-counsels-trial-set-for-august

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