CRAIN'S-Supreme Court takes case on 'fair share' union fees

[Lady Freedom Returns]

June 30, 2015
(AP) — The Supreme Court will consider limiting the power of government employee unions to collect fees from non-members in a case that labor officials say could threaten membership and further weaken union clout.

The justices said today they will hear an appeal in their next term from a group of California teachers who say it violates their First Amendment rights to have to pay any fees if they disagree with a union's positions and don't want to join it.

The teachers want the court to overturn a 38-year-old legal precedent that said unions can require non-members to pay for bargaining costs as long as the fees don't go toward political purposes. Public workers in half the states currently are required to pay "fair share" fees if they are represented by a union, even if they are not members.

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[Nite Owl]

1. Let'a put it this way

They disagree with union positions then don't accept the help and benefits that the unions bargain for. Freeloaders.

[lonestarnot]

3. That is the way it should be, but unfortunately it is not.

[lindysalsagal]

2. Very happy to be rec " 1"! K n effinR!

They're trying to turn us into the united States of India.