So the unions negotiate with the State for salary and benefit increases every year The negotiations are done in private behind closed doors The unions contribute huge dollars to the one party rule of Olympia both directly to candidates and to progressive causes The unions also strongly support every tax increase that comes along The government officials representing the tax payers in the negotiation clearly benefit from the spending by the unions The government officials also seem to approve very attractive pay raises and benefit packages for the unions The heavy expense of the public employee union contracts is part of the reason spending is so high and over budget When tax paying citizens ask to see the content of the back scratching, cajoling, threatening, grifting, bribery like, closed door negotiations sessions, the Jay INslee appointed Supreme Court finds that those negotiations between non neutral parties regarding the spending of public tax dollars is not something the public has a right to know Things that make you go hmmm Why would the Supreme court rule in that way? Why is self dealing negotiations by Democrats and their union puppet masters sacred and to be kept a secret? And why don’t citizens have a right to know? And why does this WA state supreme court so consistently seem to rule in a partisan way with rulings that flout the WA state constitution? Its a mystery washingtonobserver.substack.…
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I was appalled after reading the Washington Supreme Court opinion earlier in the week. Yet another janky opinion on par with a Ketanji Jackson hatchet job. The First Amendment is on life support in Washington State. Seems very appetizing for appeal to SCOTUS.

Jul 1, 2025 · 11:30 PM UTC

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