Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Worker Petitions Supreme Court To Strike Down Mandatory Union Dues

A railway worker is petitioning the Supreme Court to stop unions from forcing members and nonmembers to fund union political lobbying against their will.

The worker asks the Court to draw on its 2018 Janus decision, which barred public sector employers from mandatory union dues on First Amendment grounds.

The petition, filed Tuesday, argues the 5-4 ruling did not go far enough in cracking down on union attempts to subvert right-to-work laws through mandatory dues deductions.

The petition aims to have the Court rule that "Window periods," or the brief period of time when workers have to opt out of the union, are unconstitutional.

The appeal comes as the Court signals its support for the First Amendment rights of union workers.

The petition argues the Supreme Court should clarify the application of the rights to free speech and association within the workplace.

"The Court's recent precedents recognize: opt-out procedures violate the First Amendment; and this Court never sanctioned opt-out procedures as constitutional or authorized by the ," the petition argues.
 

https://freebeacon.com/courts/worker-petitions-supreme-court-to-strike-down-mandatory-union-dues/ 

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