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WhiskeyGrinder

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Wed Jun 27, 2018, 10:18 AM Jun 2018

Janus vs. AFSCME: Supreme Court Deals Blow To Government Unions

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/27/606208436/supreme-court-deals-blow-to-government-unions

In a blow to organized labor, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that government workers who choose not to join a union cannot be charged for the cost of collective bargaining.

The vote was a predictable 5-to-4 margin. Justice Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion with the court's conservatives joining him.

"Under Illinois law, public employees are forced to subsidize a union, even if they choose not to join and strongly object to the positions the union takes in collective bargaining and related activities," Alito wrote. "We conclude that this arrangement violates the free speech rights of nonmembers by compelling them to subsidize private speech on matters of substantial public concern."

The decision reverses a four-decades-old precedent and upends laws in 22 states.
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3. this is the same logic that let me not pay taxes because i don't support some military actions.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 10:27 AM
Jun 2018

oh wait, that logic doesn't work.

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