"The U.S. Supreme Court said Thursday it would hear another case challenging a longstanding precedent about union fees out of Detroit involving public sector workers.The high court heard a similar case last term challenging compulsory union fees in the public sector, but the justices deadlocked, 4-4, after the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.
An Illinois state employee, Mark Janus, asked the justices to take up the issue again. He wants the court to overturn a 1977 ruling in a Detroit case that said public employees who do not belong to a union can be required to pay an “agency” or “fair-share” fee to compensate the union for costs to negotiate on their behalf on wage and workplace conditions.
Public employees who do not belong to the union cannot be required to pay fees the union would use for political activity like lobbying or union organizing. But Janus argues that forcing an unwilling employee to pay the limited “agency” fee is unconstitutional violation of free speech under the First Amendment.
Half the states, including Michigan, have enacted right-to-work laws that say employees don’t have to join a union or pay agency fees."
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2017/09/28/supreme-court-public-sector-union-fees/106073894/
An Illinois state employee, Mark Janus, asked the justices to take up the issue again. He wants the court to overturn a 1977 ruling in a Detroit case that said public employees who do not belong to a union can be required to pay an “agency” or “fair-share” fee to compensate the union for costs to negotiate on their behalf on wage and workplace conditions.
Public employees who do not belong to the union cannot be required to pay fees the union would use for political activity like lobbying or union organizing. But Janus argues that forcing an unwilling employee to pay the limited “agency” fee is unconstitutional violation of free speech under the First Amendment.
Half the states, including Michigan, have enacted right-to-work laws that say employees don’t have to join a union or pay agency fees."
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2017/09/28/supreme-court-public-sector-union-fees/106073894/