Teacher files frivolous suit over "discrimination"

This is "discrimination" how???

According to the Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati's official newspaper, an elementary school teacher in Ohio is suing teachers' unions for discrimination she claims she suffered. I'm sure there's much more to the story than the article reported, because the piece so reeks of anti-labor bias, but I'll have to go by the facts they reported for now.

The federal suit claims the unions discriminated against her by spending union dues on causes she disagrees with.

So now it's "discrimination" if someone spends money in a way you don't like? Does that mean that if I shop at a store whose owner decides to donate their revenues to right-wing causes, I can sue? If you can sue a union, why can't you sue a corporation?

And if you can sue unions, does this mean you can sue the Archdiocese of Cincinnati for spending money from the collection plate on blatant anti-union propaganda? Clearly the archdiocese is against organized labor. It can deny it all it wants, but the fact that it would publish such a piece proves where it stands.

The work-for-less intelligentsia is helping the teacher fight her case. The misnamed National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is even giving her free legal help.

I know there's two sides to every issue, and reasonable people can disagree. I'm not saying you can't have views that don't square with unions'. But the disgraceful Far Right brain trust is once again turning a culture war matter into an economic one - with the goal of harming the working public. That's always their goal. All of their demagoguery on social issues has the ultimate aim of undermining economic justice.

I'd like to see laws passed against frivolous suits like this. If it gets to the point where activist judges start siding with those who'd use cases like this to undermine economic fairness, then we need to take a serious look at passing a constitutional amendment.