In January of last year, we noted that the U.S. Supreme Court was poised to end compulsory union dues for California teachers and other public employees. Then in February of last year, Justice Antonin Scalia died. In March of last year, we blogged that the unions had breathed a big sigh of relief when
Compulsory Union Dues
Unions Breathe Big Sigh of Relief Over Compulsory Dues
By David Faustman on
Posted in Labor Law
Public employee unions dodged a bulldozer yesterday when the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it had deadlocked 4 to 4 in Freidrichs v. California Teachers Ass’n, the case challenging the constitutionality of compulsory union dues for public employees. On January 12, we wrote that the Supreme Court was poised to end compulsory dues for…