Posted by Eugene Volokh:
AFL-CIO Brands Its Own Member Union's Position "Troubling and Extreme":
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_05_29-2005_06_04.shtml#1117663393
The AFL-CIO faults Judge Janice Brown's willingness to protect
offensive speech as being "[1]troubling and extreme":
[I]n Aguilar v. Avis Rent-a-Car, 980 P.2d 846 (1999), Brown
authored a dissenting opinion that would have struck down, on First
Amendment grounds, an injunction that instructed a supervisor not
to use racial epithets against Latino employees. The injunction was
issued by a trial court judge after the employer was found liable
by a jury for maintaining a discriminatory hostile work environment
for Latino employees.
On the other hand, the National Writers Union -- a member union of the
AFL-CIO -- proudly [2]filed an amicus brief urging the same result
that Justice Brown endorsed. Now of course the AFL-CIO need not agree
with everything its member unions say. But if a member union takes a
particular pro-free-speech view, it does seem odd that the AFL-CIO --
which has long benefited from free speech protections, and has long
fought for broadening such protections -- would label that view
"troubling and extreme."
Thanks to Hans Bader for pointing this out.
References
1. http://www.aflcio.org/issuespolitics/rogers_brown.cfm?RenderForPrint=1
2. http://www.nwu.org/div/divhb/NWUDiversityHndbkChap12.pdf
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