{"id":1921151,"date":"2023-04-29T04:40:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T08:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-trooper-gets-260000-settlement-after-demotion-for-not-joining-police-union\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T04:42:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T08:42:23","slug":"state-trooper-gets-260000-settlement-after-demotion-for-not-joining-police-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-trooper-gets-260000-settlement-after-demotion-for-not-joining-police-union\/","title":{"rendered":"State Trooper Gets $260,000 Settlement After Demotion For Not Joining Police Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstate-trooper-gets-260000-settlement-after-demotion-for-not-joining-police-union%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1921151&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>State Trooper Wins Settlement After Refusing to Join Union<\/h2>\n<p class=\"engaging-text\">A Connecticut state trooper stood up for his rights and won a $260,500 settlement after being demoted from a prestigious position for refusing to join the State Police Union (CSPU) and contribute to its politics. The case was represented by staff attorneys at the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation.<\/p>\n<h3>The Retribution Scheme<\/h3>\n<p class=\"engaging-text\">In May 2015, State Trooper Joseph Mercer was appointed Operations Sergeant of the Emergency Services Unit. The next month, CSPU President Andrew Matthews filed two grievances targeting Mercer, one stating no \u201cselection process\u201d had been implemented to fill the position and another alleging Mercer had mismanaged an incident involving an armed suspect. In October 2015, Matthews reportedly met with Dora Schriro, then the Commissioner of the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection (DESPP); Schriro subsequently transferred Mercer to an administrative post.<\/p>\n<h3>The Fight for Justice<\/h3>\n<p class=\"engaging-text\">Mercer filed suit in 2016 and in May 2022, a district court ordered DESPP Commissioner James Rovella, Schriro\u2019s replacement, to turn over additional discovery. The National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix stated, \u201cWe at the Foundation are proud to have defended Sergeant Mercer\u2019s rights and secured him a settlement that vindicates his free association.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Importance of the Janus Decision<\/h3>\n<p class=\"engaging-text\">The Foundation-won Janus v. AFSCME decision, which the U.S. Supreme Court decided while Mercer\u2019s case was ongoing, is vital for public employees to exercise their First Amendment right to cut off all financial support of union bosses who are contorting government in their private interests. In late June 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Janus v. AFSCME that non<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-trooper-gets-260000-settlement-after-demotion-for-not-joining-police-union\/\" title=\"State Trooper Gets 0,000 Settlement After Demotion For Not Joining Police Union\">-union government workers<\/a> could not be forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/labor-nominee-dismisses-job-losses-from-bidens-economic-plan\/\" title=\"Labor Nominee Dismisses Job Losses from Biden\u2019s Economic Plan\">pay union fees<\/a> in order to work in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/perverse-and-morally-reprehensible-public-health-officials-must-be-more-ethical-thought-leaders-say\/\" title=\"\u201cPerverse\u201d and \u201cMorally Reprehensible\u201d: Public Health Officials Must Be More Ethical, Thought Leaders Say\">public service jobs<\/a>. Millions of teachers, first responders and other government workers were affected.<\/p>\n<h3>Victory for All<\/h3>\n<p class=\"engaging-text\">Plaintiff Mark Janus reacted, \u201cI\u2019m thrilled that the Supreme Court has restored not only my First Amendment rights, but the rights of millions of other government workers across the country. So many of us have been forced to pay for political speech and policy positions with which we disagree, just so we can keep our jobs. This is a victory for all of us. The right to say \u2018no\u2019 to a union is just as important as the right to say \u2018yes.\u2019 Finally our rights have been restored.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Connecticut state trooper who charged that the State Police Union (CSPU) and Department of Emergency Services (DESPP) demoted him from a prestigious position for refusing to join the union membership and contribute to its politics won a $260,500 settlement. State Trooper Joseph Mercer, whose case was represented by staff attorneys at the National Right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1921152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[25403,25402,13831,3967,9811,25401,4701],"class_list":["post-1921151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-25403","tag-demotion","tag-joining","tag-police","tag-settlement","tag-trooper","tag-union"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1921152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}