\nHammond, IN (January 17, 2012) \u2013 A United States District Court Judge has dismissed a federal lawsuit filed by International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) Local 150 lawyers challenging Indiana\u2019s recently-enacted Right to Work law. Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation, issued the following statement responding to the decision:\n<\/p>\n
\n\n\t\u201cUnion bosses want to undo what thousands of Hoosier citizens have worked hard to achieve through the democratic process. Unfortunately for the IUOE, the constitutionality of state Right to Work laws has long been a settled question. We\u2019re happy to report that Judge Simon rejected their frivolous arguments and ensured that millions of Indianans will continue to labor free from union coercion.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\nNational Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, representing four Indiana workers who support the Right to Work law, conferred with lawyers for the State of Indiana about the arguments that were made to defend the law.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe four Hoosier citizens who opposed the union\u2019s legal challenge were David Bercot, a certified wastewater operator for the ITR Concession Company in Fort Wayne; Joel Tibbetts, a Minteq International assistant manager in Valparaiso; Douglas Richards, an employee with the Goshen-based Cequent Towing Products; and Larry Getts, a Dana Holding Corporation technician in Albion.\n<\/p>\n
IUOE Local 150, headquartered in suburban Chicago, filed the lawsuit last February challenging Indiana\u2019s Right to Work law and requesting an injunction against its implementation.\n<\/p>\n
\nJudge Philip Simon dismissed all of the union\u2019s claims, but he did not rule on arguments contesting the law on the grounds that it violates Indiana\u2019s constitution, leaving that to state courts to decide. A United Steel Workers legal challenge based on different arguments is proceeding in Indiana state court, where two other Foundation-assisted employees have filed an amicus curiae brief arguing that the law is consistent with their state\u2019s constitution.\n<\/p>\n
Indiana is the nation\u2019s 24th Right to Work state. Public polling shows that nearly 80 percent of Americans support the Right to Work principle, including 80 percent of union members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\n\n\t\u201cUnion bosses want to undo what thousands of Hoosier citizens have worked hard to achieve through the democratic process. Unfortunately for the IUOE, the constitutionality of state Right to Work laws has long been a settled question. We\u2019re happy to report that Judge Simon rejected their frivolous arguments and ensured that millions of Indianans will continue to labor free from union coercion.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
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