<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dearest IRENE ––<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>B R A V O ! ! ! </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Well said . . . let the 'justices' buy their own black robes !!</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Seriously, this ruling is a another of the bigoted right-wing's incremental, anti-democracy treachery. When will <font class="Apple-style-span" face="Baskerville"><b><i>we the people</i></b></font> rise up?</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><img id="9c535f3d-4ac1-45f0-a9ff-74c518dc5b1c" height="164" width="220" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:4D721732-B385-4CA5-8430-1BB71171E171"><br><div><br></div>
<br><div><div>On Jul 2, 2014, at 9:44 AM, Irene L. Malone wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Editor:<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The decision by the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court to allow home health care workers who are represented by unions to opt out of paying dues is an attack on those who represent the workers and on their fellow workers. Before they were unionized, these workers had extremely low pay and no benefits. Relatives of disabled people cared for them without a salary, or the clients were placed in care facilities away from their families. Maybe the claimants in the case want to return to those days.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Hard working people need true representation and don't have the time or the assets to struggle alone for fairness at the work site; our unions, with representatives chosen by the workers, stand for us and need our participation and financial support.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Would an outcome of this negative decision be that taxpayers can refuse to pay the portion of our taxes that go to maintain the functioning of the U.S. Supreme Court or the salaries and benefits of politicians who do not represent us fairly?<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>IRENE MALONE<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Fort Bragg<br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>