"The U.S. Supreme Court announced today that it will hear the case of Mark Janus, a child support specialist from Illinois who is suing for the right to leave his union. His case is widely considered to be the heir to Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, a 2016 case that could have made paying dues or fees to a public union optional for workers across the entire country. If Janus v. AFSCME is ruled as Friedrichs was expected to be, it would mean that all public sector employees in the country would be freed from being forced to financially support a union as a matter of constitutional law.In Friedrichs, the court was expected to decide that “agency fees” — payments that workers in unionized workplaces are required to give to a union — are unconstitutional under the First Amendment. This would have made all public employees in mandatory bargaining units right-to-work. The sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia a few weeks after the hearing made the final decision a 4-4 split, but allowed similar cases, like Janus, to move forward."
http://www.mackinac.org/us-supreme-court-to-hear-pivotal-right-to-work-case
http://www.mackinac.org/us-supreme-court-to-hear-pivotal-right-to-work-case