SC gives ruling 5-4 that public sector unions may not collect may not collect dues from non-members

[Revmitchell]

The Supreme Court has upended a decades-old precedent that allowed unions to collect fees from government employees, including those who were not actually part of the union.

The justices rules 5-4 that public sector unions may not collect mandatory fees from non-members.

Mark Janus, employed at the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, set the ball in motion when he sued because he didn’t want a certain fee deducted from his paycheck to go toward a union just because he worked for the state. His lawyers argued the payment could violate First Amendment rights if someone is forced to pay a fee to an organization with different views than he or she holds.

Supreme Court deals blow to unions, rules against forced fees for government workers

 

[carpro]

Great decision!

Maybe now is the time to pass a national right to work law.

 

[carpro]

https://www.breitbart.com/big-gover...shes-budget-following-supreme-court-decision/


The nation’s largest teachers’ union is predicting a 14 percent drop in membership over the next two years and a $28 million budget cut for the next school year following the Supreme Court’s ruling that public sector unions can no longer compel non-members to pay dues.
“We have been preparing for this for over a year; we are prepared to weather this storm,” said Princess Moss, secretary-treasurer of the National Education Association (NEA), reports Madeline Will at Education Week.

“Still, the proposed budget reflects a hard new reality for the nation’s largest teachers’ union,” Will writes. “It necessitates cutting $50 million over two years—$28 million in the first year and $22 million in the second year. That reduction is accompanied by a loss of 31,000 agency-fee payers in the first year, and a 14 percent membership decline over two years.”

 

[Revmitchell]

Awwww, less money for the DNC!

 

[Salty]

As I have seen written elsewhere - if unions are so great - why to people have to be forced to join?