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Supreme Court deals blow to public-sector unions, ruling against 'fair-share' fees
The Hill ^ | June 27, 2018 | Lydia Wheeler

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 ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: afscme; biglabor; fundingtheleft; illinois; janus; janusvafscme; janusvsafscme; maga; ntowy; publicsector; ruling; scotus; union; unions; winning
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To: Lurker

F the unions.


21 posted on 06/27/2018 7:18:20 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: jazusamo

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.


22 posted on 06/27/2018 7:18:52 AM PDT by libstripper
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To: jazusamo
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 perform their essential public functions that would be donated to the democratic party

There, I fixed it!

23 posted on 06/27/2018 7:19:12 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: Drango

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!!!


24 posted on 06/27/2018 7:19:28 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: jazusamo

Oh No the Dem slush fund


25 posted on 06/27/2018 7:19:36 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Rusty0604

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.


26 posted on 06/27/2018 7:19:52 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: jazusamo

Someone. Please! Paper bag! Hyperventilating!


27 posted on 06/27/2018 7:20:04 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: nikos1121
5-4 again?

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.

28 posted on 06/27/2018 7:20:11 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: MaxistheBest

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.


29 posted on 06/27/2018 7:20:26 AM PDT by DrDude (Raining Cats, Dogs and Jackasses! Must be a STORM abrewing!)
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To: PGR88

DITTO


30 posted on 06/27/2018 7:20:36 AM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: jazusamo

Public employees unions should be disbanded. It’s ridiculous they ever got started.


31 posted on 06/27/2018 7:21:12 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: All

No surprise, the four liberals stick together again...Ginsburg, Breyer, Kagan and Sotomayor.


32 posted on 06/27/2018 7:21:16 AM PDT by jazusamo (Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
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To: MaxistheBest
how the ‘4’ that supported the unions justify their stance?” it’s not legal it’s political...

THAT'S how they justify it ... it is a POLITICAL decision that they believe is what the SCOTUS should be doing.

33 posted on 06/27/2018 7:22:03 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for.)
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To: jazusamo

Who were the 4 dissenters?

LoL


34 posted on 06/27/2018 7:22:12 AM PDT by MountainWalker
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To: jazusamo

Best year ever for SCOTUS decisions.


35 posted on 06/27/2018 7:22:20 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: jazusamo

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!


36 posted on 06/27/2018 7:22:27 AM PDT by CedarDave
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Public employees unions should be disbanded. It’s ridiculous they ever got started.

Exactly, if the government employer can't be fair to workers then eliminate government as an employer.

37 posted on 06/27/2018 7:22:37 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Rusty0604

Nuclear explosion in Oregon which is run by the public unions.


38 posted on 06/27/2018 7:22:45 AM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: jazusamo

So what about private sector unions...?


39 posted on 06/27/2018 7:22:53 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: Rusty0604

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!


40 posted on 06/27/2018 7:22:55 AM PDT by bigbob (Trust Sessions. Trust the Plan.)
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