Justices take up dispute over union fees
Source: Associated Post, via the Washington Post
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By Sam Hananel?|?AP June 30 at 9:41 AM
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court will consider limiting the power of government employee unions to collect fees from non-members in a case that union officials say could threaten membership and further weaken organized labor.
The justices said Tuesday they will hear an appeal from a group of California teachers who say it violates their First Amendment rights to have to pay any fees if they disagree with the union’s positions.
The teachers want the court to overturn a 38-year-old precedent that said unions can require non-members to pay for collective bargaining costs as long as the fees don’t go toward political purposes. Public workers in half the states are required to pay “fair share” fees if they are represented by a union, even if they are not members.
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They should pay for it!
http://www.aflcio.org/Learn-About-Unions/What-Unions-Do/The-Union-Difference
Union members earn better wages and benefits than workers who aren’t union members. On average, union workers’ wages are 27 percent higher than their nonunion counterparts.
Unionized workers are 60 percent more likely to have employer-provided pensions.
More than 79 percent of union workers have jobs that provide health insurance benefits, but less than half of nonunion workers do. Unions help employers create a more stable, productive workforce—where workers have a say in improving their jobs.
Unions help bring workers out of poverty and into the middle class. In fact, in states where workers don’t have union rights, workers’ incomes are lower.
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