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TexasTowelie

(112,226 posts)
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 08:42 AM Dec 2018

Public employees won't recover union fees after court ruling

For now, public sector unions don’t have to return money they collected from workers under a now prohibited system that allowed them for decades to charge fees to workers who did not want to join them.

A federal judge in Washington state this week dismissed a lawsuit that asked the Washington Federation of State Employees to reimburse so-called “fair share” fees to a group of workers who did not want to participate in the union but were compelled to pay the charges. The case will likely be appealed.

The U.S. Supreme Court in June issued a 5-4 decision that banned public sector unions from collecting any kind of fee from workers who do not choose to join them.

Since then, the attorneys behind the Washington case have filed lawsuits all over the country demanding that unions give money back to workers who did not want to participate in labor organizations, or who joined them only because they felt that no other option.

Read more: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/the-state-worker/article222444045.html

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Public employees won't recover union fees after court ruling (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2018 OP
Illegitimate decision- Gorsuch is illegitimate sharedvalues Dec 2018 #1

sharedvalues

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1. Illegitimate decision- Gorsuch is illegitimate
Mon Dec 3, 2018, 08:48 AM
Dec 2018

Gorsuch sits in a stolen seat and thisnwas a 5-4 decision.

This is what the Fed Soc planned: take donations from billionaires to put hacks and partisans on SCOTUS who will vote for pro-billionaire decisions. Like decisions that harm unions.

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