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Texas National Guard troops assigned to Operation Lone Star become the first guard members to unionize while on active duty and organize with Texas State Employees Union
- National Guard troops in Texas are legally organizing and forming unions while serving on state active duty orders
- Federal laws prohibiting members of the military from organizing unions 'does not apply to Guard members on state active duty' DoJ lawyers wrote last month
- The green-light to organize hinges upon the troops’ legal status as state employees rather than military members when they are on state active duty
- Usually, Guard troops only go on state active duty for short periods of time such as after a disaster or civil disturbance
- But Texas' National Guard’s Operation Lone Star, includes up to 10,000 members of the Texas Military Department who are mobilized on year-long orders
- Operation Lone Star was created by Texas Governor Greg Abbott amidst a wave of illegal immigrants from Central America crossing the US-Mexico border
- It deploys law enforcement in areas human and drug smugglers known to use
They will join the Texas State Employees Union's Military Caucus.
Their unionization comes after a recent filing by the Justice Department that allows for troops with the Guard to join; their first union meeting is scheduled for next week.
A federal law that had previously prohibited members of the military from organizing unions 'does not apply to Guard members on state active duty or in the Inactive National Guard,' DOJ lawyers wrote in a court filing last month.
| Do tell. Whose bright idea was it to organize this effort, and what are his connections to the FBI, et al? |
Posted by: Skidmark 2022-02-18 |
