If a union gets outside funds and spends those outside funds on political speech and that political speech is approved by the majority that seems to me to be within their rights.
That seems different than spending mandatory union dues on political speech. Maybe I’m missing something since this is the first article I’ve read on this recently.
It’s shuffling money. It’s like saying your taxes don’t pay for welfare, every other American’s does. Yours goes for defense. Personally, I think that if the union wants a closed shop, then they can’t pay a dime of their own money on any political activity and have to set up a PAC with non-dues funds.
Of course, if they are in an open shop, I think that the members can be forced to have their dues go to the political activities of the union. But that isn’t the current law.