Judge Likely to Overturn Rule Change for Home Care Worker Union Dues
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – A federal judge signaled Wednesday he will likely overturn a Trump administration rule that blocks states from directly deducting union dues from hundreds of thousands of in-home health care workers’ paychecks.
Hearing arguments on dueling motions for summary judgment, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria rejected the Trump administration’s position that a decades-old Medicaid Act provision prohibits the deduction of union dues and health insurance fees from in-home care workers’ paychecks.
“I don’t see how you can say at least from the language on its own that Congress has spoken to the precise issue at hand, which is what you need on this motion to win,” Chhabria told a lawyer representing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
California and five other states sued Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in May 2019, accusing the administration of attempting to reinterpret the Medicaid Act in a way that would weaken unions by banning automatic deductions of union membership fees. The fees pay for first aid training and some health supplies.
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