Court: Public employees who leave union can't recover dues
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Public employees who leave a union can’t recover back dues, a federal appeals court ruled.
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled Wednesday against seven Washington state employees that left their union and were trying to collect paid fees, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The federal appeals court said that a June 2018 Supreme Court’s ruling that barred public employee unions from collecting fees from nonmembers did not give union members a right to resign and recover dues they have already paid.
Neither the union nor the state of Washington, the workers’ employer, violated their First Amendment rights by continuing to collect dues they had voluntarily agreed to pay, the court said.
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