The Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit on behalf of three Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus operators, Nicole Williams, Christopher Williams, and Miguel Perez, who are members of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 241.
Although the union’s bylaws provide that it must conduct an annual financial audit and must draft semi-annual audit reports, which must be provided to the union’s members at its membership meetings, the union has failed to provide these audits and audit reports to the plaintiffs despite multiple requests.
The Liberty Justice Center filed the lawsuit to compel the union to release the audits and audit reports to plaintiffs, who, as dues-paying union members, have a right to review the financial records of the union. This follows on the heels of Weiss v. Chicago Teachers Union, a case filed by LJC in October 2024 that demands the CTU produce its missing audits.
Chicago Transit Authority v. Amalgamated Transit Union was filed in the Circuit Court for Cook County of Illinois, Chancery Division, on March 11, 2025.
Jeffrey M. Schwab is a Senior Counsel at the Liberty Justice Center, where he litigates cases to protect the rights to free speech, economic liberty, private property and other Constitutional rights in both federal and state courts across the country.
(The Center Square)—The Liberty Justice Center filed three lawsuits on behalf of government employees against their public sector unions. The lawsuits come six years after the Janus v. AFSCME landmark case, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public-sector employees don’t have to pay union dues to have a job....