Here’s a case worth watching: this past April, the Center for Individual Rights (lead attorney Michael Rosman) and Jones Day (Michael Carvin) filed a First Amendment challenge to California’s “agency shops” for public school teachers. (An “agency shop” means that non-union members must still pay a fee to the union for activities related to collective bargaining.) Plaintiffs are teachers who have about had it with the defendant unions. The State of California will likely join the case on the defendants’ side. A recent blog on the case is here; a copy of the complaint here. This baby ought to move fast:…
|agency shops, California, CIR, collective bargaining, First Amendment, jurisprudence, Knox v. SEIU, labor law, Labor Unions, New Deal
Don’t Pay No Union Dues
by Michael S. Greve|