Need a reminder why the fight for commonsense judges is so important?
Here’s the news from the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco:
A federal appeals court ordered reinstatement Monday for 33 janitors in Los Angeles who were fired because their Social Security numbers did not match the government’s database, a ruling that could strengthen unions’ case against a Bush administration proposal to pressure employers to get rid of suspected illegal immigrants…
But in ordering the Los Angeles janitors rehired with back pay, the court said employees can’t be fired merely because the Social Security number they submit differs from the number in the government’s files - a major issue in lawsuits over the administration’s plan…
The employees, whose union contract protected them from being fired without good cause, won reinstatement and back pay from an arbitrator, who said Aramark had no convincing information that they were illegal immigrants. A federal judge disagreed but was overruled Monday by the three-judge appellate panel.
So a company trying to do the right thing is being forced to employ illegal immigrants by labor unions and liberal judges. The labor union in this case is Service Employees International Union (SEUI), which strongly endorses both Barack Obama and amnesty.
Labor unions have been rapidly losing membership for years, but they see illegal immigration as a way to grow membership and keep dues flowing in to support Democrats. As Byron York pointed out in 2006:
And where will those unions, which represent mostly low-wage, unskilled workers, find new members? That’s right. In the large-and-growing-larger pool of illegal immigrants…
And of course, if those illegal immigrants are unionized, and if immigration reform puts them on the path to citizenship, then in the end there will be a new pool of … Democratic voters. And more money for the party. More union members means more union dues and more contributions to Democrats. And pretty much only to Democrats. From 1989 to 2006, SEIU made $23.5 million in political contributions, with more than 90 percent of it going to Democrats.
The Left is going to try and ram through amnesty again. It will pander to union bosses who bankroll Democrat elections. And it will try to pack the courts with activist, liberal judges.
The time to fight for conservatives in the U.S. Senate is now.
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