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The Bill Myer Show podcast is sponsored by Clauser Drilling. They've been leading the way in southern Oregon well drilling for over 50 years. Find out more about them at Clauser Drilling dot com. Joining me from the Freedom Foundation, she's the Litigation Council, Rebecca Schulteis. And I want to talk a little bit about what the Freedom Foundation is first here. Welcome to the show, Rebecca. Good to have you on. Thank you so much for having me. Could you tell us a little bit about the Freedom Foundation and what it's all about? Because

your group is putting a brief together and sending it to the United States Supreme Court. It has to do with some worker rights. But is worker rights what you mostly focus on? What else is going on here? Please. Yeah, thanks for asking. Freedom Foundation is a public interest nonprofit organization and we are dedicated to limited governments, individual freedom, and really importantly, accountable government. Boy, you must be very lonely. I'm sorry. I'm just having fun with you. No, you know, we stay really busy. A lot of people are concerned about these issues and rightly so.

But yeah, our main focus is on public sector labor unions. So there's a lot of things that are unique here in Oregon, Washington, state and California that basically, when I say unique, we have unique laws that allow public sector unions to have immense power in our states. And this is even after the Janus decision, which supposedly, you know, cut back the ability of a union to be able to force you to join it, even now that's still happening? Yes, yes. It is. And one of the things we do, one of the primary things we do outside of our legal efforts, is we just let people know that they have the right

to leave their union. Because surprisingly, well maybe not surprisingly, public sector unions aren't telling people that. So if you didn't happen to be paying attention to the Supreme Court, you might not realize you don't have to pay anymore. But the thing that's disturbing and that actually relates to this particular brief that we're talking about today

is even if you don't have to pay membership dues to a union, you still have to be represented by a labor union. If you're in a collective bargaining unit that's been defined under Oregon law, which pretty much every public sector employee is at this point. So even though you're not necessarily paying them money, they still represent you. You still have to go to them for anything you need with regard to the contract, your labor, you know, labor rights, the wages hours, working conditions. So even without, even without paying into the system, so to speak, you're still in the system. And of course, yeah, you're still owned, you're still owned by the union to an extent, even if you're not paying dues to them, right?

That's exactly what we try to point out. And the union still speaks for you, which we argue in this brief is forced association, it's compelled association. Now, the case that we're talking about is actually a Bar Association case. And as an attorney, it's near and dear to my heart. I'm actually admitted to practice here in Oregon as well as in California. So let me understand this then. It's a case that I've not heard of.

It's Crow v. the Oregon State Bar. So what is the basics of this case and why did you want to get involved with this, with the Supreme Court? So I guess what, it's a friend of the court brief? Is that what you're going to submit? Correct. Yes. We did not bring the initial challenge, Ms. Crowe did.

And so it's a case that's been working its way through the court system and is now on petition for review at the Supreme Court for certiorari review. So we're in support of the Supreme Court looking at this because what we have right now is a circuit split. We have, for instance, the Second Circuit saying it's perfectly fine to force people to be in mandatory bar associations. And the Fifth Circuit saying, no, you can't force people into any kind of membership. That's a violation of your freedom of association rights. And then the the night circuit sort of came down in the middle in this Crow case and said well you can be forced to be in a membership but if they're going to

engage in speech that you disagree with they have to include a disclaimer to say that they're not speaking on your behalf. So it's in the middle of the ground. All right now, I... Which is good, it's just not good enough. Yeah, all right. Yeah, here's the thing. And we have talked about all sorts of numerous professional organizations that many people apparently are forced to almost associate with in order to practice.

Like, now, I don't know if you are forced to be a member of the AM with in order to practice. Like, now I don't know if you are forced to be a member of the AMA in order to practice medicine, maybe not, but the AMA does tend to determine everything about a doctor, whether for good and or evil. And I would dare say the American Bar Association has an incredibly big thumb on the ideological scale out there in the United States. Is that a fair assessment and is that why Crowe is challenging this association, this forced association? That's a really great question. Now,

the American Bar Association is completely voluntary. So, while it is a huge organization and while it has an oversized impact on all kinds of policies, you don't have to be part of it. So I personally have chosen not to pay money to the organization, not to be part of it. I don't, you know, there's some really good things about it. There's some really, but there's things I just can't support that the American Bar Association does.

And so, you know, that's my choice not to be part of it. Now, you're right, they do still have a huge impact. And that's probably another issue for another day. But the issue here in Crow is even if you're not, I mean, even if you're, well, two things. In Crow, you can be forced to be a member of the bar, and you can be forced to pay bar dues. How is that possible? How is that possible then, Rebecca, if it is a voluntary association, supposedly, or a voluntary group?

Okay, okay. Let me distinguish. Let me distinguish. Sorry. The American Bar Association is a national organization. It's a voluntary. Yes. The Oregon Bar Association is just in Oregon and it is in just in Oregon, it has control of the profession.

So basically, the Supreme Court here in Oregon has delegated to the Oregon Bar Association, as opposed to the larger organization. So they're not related, actually. It's just, they happen to be called Bar Association. Thank you, because I didn't realize that there was a difference with the Oregon Bar Association. So the Oregon Bar Association is not just a subdivision, then, of the national. No, no. It's not, in fact, not connected at all. It's under the control of, at least loosely speaking, the Oregon State

Well, the Supreme Court. Yeah, the state's Supreme Court that regulates all legal professionals. Yeah. So, yeah, so there's a distinction there, but a kind of one of the points of our brief is voluntary associations were great. There's more than 30 states that do basically what the American Bar Association does and says, you know, you can be a part of our organization if you want. You don't have to be, you do have to be licensed to practice law, but that's something that the state takes care of separate from the bar. And it's voluntary, and you

do it if you support what we do, you don't do it if you don't support it, you have the freedom to choose. Which is very American, you know? Yeah, yeah. The choice is kind of fundamental. And we were scratching our heads as we put these briefs together, seeing what situations are there where you're forced into an association in an organization where you don't want to be part of it? And we've come up with two instances, mandatory bar associations, like in this case Crowe, and mandatory unions for public sector employees.

So you're looking for a decision then from the Supreme Court that is very much like the Janus decision with public with you with unions. It's like the next step of the Janus decision. Got it. Okay. Very interesting. You know, I wanted to tickle your your legal pituitary gland, you know, if you don't mind here. I don't know if you have one or not, but the legal pituitary, yeah, the growth hormone here. Why not, has there been any discussion about expanding even this concept of forced association when it comes to people's property?

And the reason I bring this up is that, you know, for about 40, 50, 60 years now, we have this kind of legal created out of whole cloth idea that if you allow people into your property, you are now turned into a public accommodation. And then there is so much control of the state by this in that you must force, it was almost like a forced association when it comes to control of your private property under the guise then it's always under the guise of Federal civil rights laws anything that ever gets talked about in your circles. Just curious I know it may it's it's far afield from what you're talking about here, but I've always wondered this

That's a great question. It's not something I personally have considered at all. But yeah, it's interesting as you start thinking about situations in which we allow basically so much government control that it becomes basically an association, right? Some of the old case law dealt with, you know, like, you know, a sheriff would get elected in one county and you had to be a member of his party to continue to work for the sheriff's department, right? So, you know, if you didn't want to change your political party, you were going to get fired. Right.

The Supreme Court thankfully said you can't require someone to be part of your political party to work for you, even in a job like sheriff, you know. Yes, you got to be able to trust your people, but no, that's a step too far. And yeah, in so many situations like that, I think what we need is a drawing back and saying, look, if you're forcing someone to be associated, to be a member, to basically stand in the circle with these people, and the message of the other people in the circle, they don't agree with. Don't force them to be in the circle, they don't agree with.

Don't force them to be in the circle. Let them out. But you see, this is very common if you have a building or a business, let's say, and you know, trying to control your clientele and you don't want to associate with some people. Now I know that may hurt some people's feelings, but it's either your property or it is it. It can't be both the government's and yours. And that seems to be something which has been lost, I think. Not that I'm advocating bigotry, it's not what I'm saying, but you know, when we are now in a world now which the government almost has total control of you under forced association, and yet there are so many other forced associations that are not, that no one would even think of that.

Think of that sort of forcing. It's a great question. It's one I think we're going to have to face and really dig down and analyze. But I have to say, I haven't done that at this point. It's a big question, especially with personal property, private property rights. It's an important question. Yeah. But yeah, our clients, you know, what I do nine to five is representing public sector employees and one of our most recent lawsuits is against the United Teachers of Los Angeles, who are forcing Jewish teachers to basically be in a bargaining unit, be represented by

a union that... Hates them? Hates them is very anti-Semitic. It's putting forth all kinds of information and curricula even in their classrooms that is diametrically opposed to their deeply held religious beliefs. Yeah. And so we're pointing out, you know, this is a situation where, yes, it's freedom of speech, but it's also freedom of religion and freedom of conscience that's affected here. Because no

matter what these individual teachers say, they're still associated with this union. And the union's got a very loud voice. It's out there saying, free Palestine, you know, from the river to the sea, Israel should not have a right to exist. And some of the stuff that they publicly said in our complaint, it's outrageous. So anyway, we need to stand up for these rights of both public officials. And it must be wise to maybe cool the political tempers going on in some of the, or temperatures, I think, in some of the or temperatures I think in some of these organizations. What if they just step back and said we're only going to deal with things that are actually relevant to wages hours and working conditions?

What a concept. That'd be a great step in the right direction. And that's part of the analysis, right? If you're if you're only dealing with things that are truly germane to your job as an overseeing association. Well, that's one thing. But I have yet to find a labor union or a bar association, a state bar association that does that. Well, as an example, I would bring up once again the American Bar Association. Now, I have a very different point of view and in a

way when it comes to science revolving involving rather climate change. Well the American Bar Association's absolute one of reasons to exist is that they push this as a matter of their deal. Now what does this have to do with the law in being the best attorney and or judge and various other things in the world? You have involved yourself in political arguments and decisions rather than getting involved in promoting the profession, I guess,

is what I'm getting at. And I can see why people say, why should I be forced to have to join this group? Right? That kind of thing. Well, absolutely. And there's a very fine line between, the organization's right to take a position on climate change or some other controversial topic, and then for them to turn around and say, well, if you don't agree with us on this topic, you're

not allowed into the profession. That's the next step. Yeah, exactly. And that's why- We're really fighting about that, even though that's not technically an issue in any of these cases. I think that's the bigger question. And one that we're gonna have to face. I mean, you're in Southern Oregon, right? I mean, what if there was a, you know,

you can't own a gun unless you belong to the American Gun Association, and they take positions, you know, on all of these things. You know, and you have to pay money to them. I mean, it would be...we wouldn't do that, right? I don't think we should do it to lawyers or to teachers or to any other profession either. Yeah. Well, the states tried to make sure we don't have any of those anyway, but that's another conversation for another time. But wouldn't that be a clever way to do it?

Oh, of course, of course. Yeah yeah you have to belong to the American Safety Association or whatever you might want to call it. Whatever you want to call it. The American Anti-Suicide Association. So anyway, Rebecca, I appreciate learning more about the Freedom Foundation. So it's freedomfoundation.com and is it mostly then working with government unions and associations that you work with, or do you ever take on private sector concerns too? We mostly work on government because our focus and our mission is to improve and bring a little bit of accountability to our government, which can't happen without reforming public

sector unions. So that's our focus, but if someone's in a private sector union and needs help, we will definitely talk to you and never going to turn someone away if there's anything we can do to help. Rebecca Schulteis once again, Litigation Counsel at the Freedom Foundation. Thank you so much, great getting a chance to meet you and learning more about this case. Okay, be well. Well thank you so much, Bill. Thank you. Rebecca Schulteis, it is 825 at KMED and 993 KBXG. Hey, as promised though, how about that Diner 62 real American quiz? If you have not won it in the last 60

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time on this thing. I don't know what kind of method you'd use but it works. Okay, get in touch with Cherise at Nowires now. You can just stop into the Bricks and Mortar store, 1560 Biddle Road, Sweet B in Medford, or you can also call or text. Yep, text a message of your bill to 541-680-5875, and she will make sure and get back to you, okay? Anything else you want to add?

No, that sounds pretty good. If you have just spectrum internet, I can help you lower that too. All right. Very good. Hey, appreciate it. Okay. Thanks, Cherise. Thanks Bill. You're welcome. Cherise on Open for Business. Now then, it's open phones for the rest of the show here. 844-770-5633. We've had a lot going on here. Open phones on Pebble in Your Shoe Tuesday. If you haven't offloaded your Pebble yet, let us know. An American tradition like no other. The Central Point Wild Road Pro Rodeo presented by Country Financial is set to be the ride of a lifetime. This isn't just any rodeo.

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between the digital delay and all the rest of it. 770-5633-770-KMED. I don't know who's here. We're just gonna hit the phone calls live. I might have asked. I haven't had enough coffee this Tuesday. Hi, who's this? Good morning. Welcome. Hey, this is Charlene. Charlene, thank you. I've been so busy I forgot to write down your name. I have a feeling that you want, my Spidey sense tells me that you want to talk about the candidates here in the upcoming May election.

What do you think? But I also have a pebble. So about that issue. Okay, we have, okay, the Library Board has two positions open, and one is position one and position two. So position one, be sure to vote for Karen Spoon. Karen Spoon. Karen Spoon. She is a good conservative.

And position two, we have a Republican and an Independent. The Independent is the superior candidate. That is Jenny James. We have somebody who is Republican, but she's very progressive, very enthusiastic about DEI and all that. Well, we don't need any more of that in the Jackson County Library system. She's been on the board for about a year now. So, she's also supported by the Democrats and Indivisible.

Ah, well, I guess that sometimes the Republican label doesn't always help. It's a bit of that kind of like in Salem where we hear about senators and Republican House members that my job is to reach across the aisle so that we can pass Democrat bills. Yay! Yeah, well yeah, kind of rhino-like. So anyway, but Jenny is a wonderful candidate. Everybody who knows her is just so excited. She's an educator. We need people in there maybe with education degrees because she wants kids to learn how to read. We're having problems. She teaches in the public school and she sees what's going on. And maybe the library can fill in the gap somewhere with reading and all that.

I hope you're right about that. I appreciate that, Charlene, because I know that you have been passionate in your support of having a great library system and reforming what's going on there. As far as the reading, how do they teach children to read now? Do you know? I'm still trying to get to the bottom of this. I learned to read the phonics in my mother back when I was a little boy and it worked really well for me. I'm not saying it works for everybody, but I think they got away from it and now they're kind of tiptoeing back I think. But could you tell me what's going on? Well from what I've seen and heard they have a kind of a combination phonics and sight reading or something. I'm not real sure but it might be confusing the kids. But you

know what are we 49th in the nation for reading levels in the school? Oh, who's counting? Yeah, who's counting? It might be 50, I don't know. But yeah, I have talked to people in the schools and they tell me, and I think they're trying to get back to phonics, but, and the library, of course, is going to give reading lessons. But, you know, there are things they could do more than they're doing now. They have a lot of kids programs and things like that, reading to you know babies and wobblers and all this kind of stuff and that's kind of early, but to keep kids more interested in reading and excited to read and more

you know just anyway but there's just a lot of issues that the library can use a good conservative voice. I agree. All right. Thank you for the... Thank you, James. Okay. All right. We'll do it. Yeah, I just got my ballot yesterday, so you're just getting them. All right. Yeah, I just got mine yesterday too, okay? Yeah. Now, I also have on my Facebook pages the the lists put out by both Republican parties, Jackson and Josephine County. I might repost them or put them on my page today, but you think the independent in the race is better than the actual Republican

in Jackson County? All right. Yeah, the Republican is not good at all. And now the party's not going to say that. The party's just saying, okay, hey, here's the... Yeah, I get it. Yeah, they got their hands tied. All right.

What is your pebble though, or did you already go over that? Well that's the pebble is that their hands are tied. They can't really go for the best candidate who is on the same side as the Republicans, but just as an independent. Okay. I appreciate you setting it straight. Okay. Yeah. All right. Thank you, Charlene. 7705633. It's Pebble in Your Shoe Tuesday. Good morning. Hi, who's this? Pebble, that's Lucretia. Hi, Lucretia.

What is the music? Oh, now we're getting to the point. People are saying, okay, where's my music? Okay. Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow. Let me find it. I've lost it. No, it's not meow, meow.

It's... There we go. All right, Lucretia. Let us hear it. Well, it's not meow meow. It's... there we go. All right, Lucretia, let us hear it. Well, yesterday you had a guest talking about all the pornography and all in schools. Yes, that is... it was State Representative Dwayne Younger and of course he got in a lot of trouble. I don't know it's a lot of trouble, but they're now claiming that he created a hostile working environment for reading from the school books or from the books that are in the school library. It's so bad, it's so

great for the kids but so bad for adults to hear it that they were cowering, cowering in fear, I guess. The problem is, well, that's nothing compared to where they're taking us. Oh, yeah? Nothing. Okay. I really highly recommend you get this woman, Jennifer Billicon, because this goes back to the beginnings of the Catholic Church and the whole transhumanism, transgender, transsexual

plan and commoditize even sexual reproduction. But literally also to be able to use robots, they're already using them to pick carrots and they look like humans out there because they've got them looking like humans. I mean, it's amazing what they're doing, but where we're going, there's not gonna be male and female.

You're gonna be maybe a part, but they can change it out. A guy that was homosexual read her book and realized now, because she also goes into how dangerous it is to change sex and start doing this hormone stuff. But we know the food is also causing a lot of people to not have the normal libido. Well, I've wondered though about the endocrine disruptors, which is why I also focused quite a bit yesterday on the PFAS, the forever chemicals thing, which I do believe is a real thing. I don't think this is the environmental left going hissy-fitty on it.

I think there's honestly some issues involved with some of this. This woman has been on quite a few shows and movies. There's everything from No Way Back, 2023, Gender Transformation, 2023, The Gender Delusion. These are different movies she's been, but it's also she's been on The Megyn Kelly Show, Stephen Bannon's War Room, James Patrick's Big Picture. She's really amazing in her knowledge and to literally take it back all the way to the beginning with this Catholic. Well, I am definitely going to reach out to that person you suggested. I do take guest suggestions, okay? Assuming I can get them to come on. I can't force them to come on, alright?

But maybe you can pester that person so much that they'll just say, Okay, I'll go on! Just quit calling me! This is almost bigger than the chemtrails and the geoengineering bill. Oh, man. Okay. I'm putting that, Steve, put that on the calendar. Lucretia says there's something bigger than the geoengineering and the chemtrails. He's looking for your calendar right now. I'll get back to you though. Okay. Thank you, Lucretia. Some emails of the day, emails of the day, and those are sponsored by our friends over at Dr. Steve Nelson, Central Point Family Dentistry,

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and I wanted to give him an email of the day. He says, Bill, I really enjoyed your interview with the trucking company guy the other day. I've been in the trucking industry for 49 years and I'm currently semi-retired. I believe that those foreign drivers are getting their training from disreputable schools. I wouldn't be surprised if some of the schools are run by foreigners that also recruit these drivers back in the home country. I know that a lot of these schools can give a driving proficiency test, but they don't know how they can go to the DMV

and get the written test and have no English skills. The driving test has been a problem for new drivers if they didn't go to a truck driving school. How do you find a truck to take a test in? I believe the DMV doesn't even do the CDL driving test anymore. When I go in to renew my license, I've never seen an option to take the test

in other languages. Besides the language issue, most of these drivers are poorly trained and are a danger to other drivers. As far as the self-driving trucks go, John writes, very little trucking could use this option. Everyday trucking has so many variables, weather, accidents, detours, et cetera.

When many times drivers have added responsibilities than just driving. Trucking has so many variables, weather, accidents, detours, etc. Many times drivers have added responsibilities than just driving. If self-driving becomes common, where do you find emergency drivers when it snows? This is a false narrative, as are drones delivering packages economically. If this made any sense, the trucking industry would work out the problems dealing with the railroads and just do the same thing by rail and have a driver at each end for the last mile pick up and delivery, which is done to a limited extent already by UPS and others. Where I have worked, we used the railroad at times to move our trailers.

The big problem is the railroads not operating in a timely manner. The show is always interesting. As a side note, many years ago we met at the KMED back door to receive a delivery of some electrical equipment. Oh, you're the one that did that, John. I remember that. Gosh, what was that? Big transformers and stuff. No, it was a transmitter. Yeah, a transmitter delivery. Yeah, I remember that now. It was on a big palette. Well, I appreciate your take on that and thank you so much. By the way, the email is bill at BillMeyersShow.com. Now for tomorrow, oh, my mom's calling from the hospital. Okay, hang on just a second. Mom, I'll call you right back. I'll be right there. Just

hold on. Yeah, I got, yeah, she didn't check the time. All right. Anyway, you know it's real here. Wheels up Wednesday tomorrow. The email bill at BillMeyersShow.com and we will catch you then. Take care. The popularity of