What is really ironic is that the lawsuit did NOT pertain to public workers. Therefore, what governor’s Quinn and Blagoyovich did was to pass a law that forced NON gov’t workers to pay dues to a union.
This was really a no brainer for SCOTUS even though 4 voted dissented. Had the lawsuit involved a public sector worker forced to pay dues, who knows the outcome, since Kennedy passed this law in the 1960s and it was never contested.
NOW as a result they’ve screwed it up for the millions of gov’t workers who are compelled to pay union dues. No doubt public workers will not want to pay union dues anymore.
These guys should be nominated for the Darwin award.
Technically they did not over rule Aboud vs Detroit Board of Education, but I can’t see how this is that far behind. I mean why should anyone be forced to pay union dues if they are public workers? That means they work for the tax payer.