Replying to a message of BOB KLAHN to BOB ACKLEY:

 BA>> Replying to a message of Ross Cassell to DAVE DRUM:

 RC>>> Requiring someone to purchase a service from a private
 RC>>> company is unconstitutional.

 BA>> Actually there is a precedent of sorts - requiring
 BA>> membership in a (private) labor
 BA>> organization in order to get or keep a job.

 BK>  Other than construction work I don't know of any place
 BK> union  membership is necessary to get a job.

The Union Pacific Railroad requires union membership.  Presumably
the other big railroads (BNSF, NS, etc.) are also union shops.  UP has
some of the most ridiculous (union driven) work rules and policies I've
ever seen.

Back in the early 1990s the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks demanded
that UP require membership in their union by all of the railroad's
IT professionals.  The railroad said 'OK.'  The *employees* sued the
railroad over that forced membership - and lost.

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