Las Vegas-area teachers union challenges law prohibiting members from striking

Nevada’s largest teachers union filed suit Monday against a state law making it illegal for teachers and other public school employees to go on strike over pay and working conditions in the country’s fifth-largest school district, which includes Las Vegas.

The Clark County Education Association argues in its lawsuit that the 1969 state law prohibiting public employee strikes is unconstitutional. They said it also infringes on the First Amendment rights of its approximately 18,000 members in nearly 380 schools in Las Vegas and surrounding Clark County who are waging a contentious monthslong contract battle.

They also argue that the state’s definition of a strike is overbroad, sweeps away constitutional rights and gives way for arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.

BarterClub,

Good. That practice needs to stop. This will help USPS as well if they win

stolid_agnostic,

This is state law. You’re referring to federal law with UPS.

BarterClub,

Yes but they can use it as a platform.

stolid_agnostic,

That’s for sure. Doesn’t matter that it won’t survive even a conservative SCOTUS.

Enigma,

Yes, please fire all 18,000 teachers for striking. I’m sure you’ll be able to find another 18,000 to replace them by the end of the school day. /s

tryptaminev,

And they’ll only demand a 50% higher pay. Thats a steal considering what money the US is paying its teachers.

Okashiikessen,

Right? This law is purely an attempt to intimidate. Because of teachers are fired or arrested for striking, then the state has only made the strike permanent.

It would wreck the entire economy.

Forget challenging it in court. Call their bluff. Strike.

TheaoneAndOnly27,

"There's no such thing as an illegal strike, just an unsuccessful one"

https://www.yalelawjournal.org/forum/there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-illegal-strike-reconceptualizing-the-strike-in-law-and-political-economy

stormtrooper,

That is some bullshit law they got there.

The whole point of striking is to attempt a balance of power and just making it “illegal” is ridiculous. What a farce.

nufanman21,

Exactly, that’s how a union shows it’s strength. If they don’t want them to strike then they need to compromise

Kase, (edited )

but think of the children /s

-who have no teachers left and whose classrooms have no funding

SwallowsDick,

They should strike to protest the law

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