Posted on 06/27/2018 7:11:40 AM PDT by jazusamo
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that pubic sector unions for state and local employees can’t force non-members to pay a “fair-share” union fee.
In a 5-4 ruling Tuesday, the court said the extraction of agency fees from non-consenting public sector employees violates the First Amendment.
The case centers on an Illinois law, similar to those in 22 other states, that allow public-sector unions to collect a “fair-share fee” from employees for non-political activities like collective bargaining, regardless of whether those employees belong to the union or not. Mark Janus, a state child support specialist at the center of the case, argued against having to give up about $45 from each paycheck to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Council 31. Doing so, he said, violates his First Amendment rights because it forces him to support the union’s messaging.
The union, AFSCME, argues it needs the “fair-share” funds to offset the significant costs it incurs negotiating working conditions for all employees. State laws allowing unions to collect these fees are justified, the union said, to avoid a situation where nonunion members get a "free ride."
A group of 15 public sector unions, warned the court in a friend of the court brief that eliminating fair-share fees would eviscerate public sector unions, depriving them of resources they need to perform their essential public functions.
“The elimination of fair-share fees would create an all-or-nothing choice for the workers whom unions represent: pay union dues or pay nothing but still receive the benefits a union provides,” they wrote.
“In that world, many rational employees will choose to become free riders.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
F the unions.
The whole public sector unions and compulsory dues is a giant scam to finance the DemonShit party with tax payer money. Cutting off that cash flow is going to do great things for the 2018 elections.
There, I fixed it!
Happy...Trumpie, keep the winning coming, we, the American people, will never get tired of your ongoing winning streak. Go POTUS, Doanld J. Trump, Go MAGA!!!
Oh No the Dem slush fund
Oregon is one of those states run by a Public Union...we have been WAITING FOR THIS!!! SEIU has to be freaking out right now...and we have a Governor’s race heating up...currently we have a bi-sexual, Soros supported, SEIU run “woman” as Governor...we NEED a GOP governor after 34 years!!! Hoping this helps.
Someone. Please! Paper bag! Hyperventilating!
Ginsburg needs to retire, or be smothered with a pillow. She's the SCOTUS equivalent of Leonid Brezhnev, clinging to power while barely on life-support.
Huge Slush Fund and mandatory Dem voting. In NJ you have to pay these scumbags who do nothing but run Democrap politics. They make and change rules daily to get their way. Hopefully this will change.
DITTO
Public employees unions should be disbanded. It’s ridiculous they ever got started.
No surprise, the four liberals stick together again...Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan and Sotomayor.
THAT'S how they justify it ... it is a POLITICAL decision that they believe is what the SCOTUS should be doing.
Who were the 4 dissenters?
LoL
Best year ever for SCOTUS decisions.
I thought the ruling affected only dues for political donations, but listening to Varney, they are saying it affects ALL dues for public employee unions (all activities government unions do ARE inherently political), eliminates closed shops, and requires employees to opt IN to join a union, not opt OUT!
WOW! Much bigger than thought. Teachers unions may lose several hundred thousand members (30%) drop!
Exactly, if the government employer can't be fair to workers then eliminate government as an employer.
Nuclear explosion in Oregon which is run by the public unions.
So what about private sector unions...?
Public employee union membership in Wisconsin is down 40% since Act 10 which did the same thing in that state.
Given the choice, 40% of those previously paying union dues opted not to.
Winning BIGLY indeed!
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