The Liberty Justice Center filed a lawsuit on behalf of Andre Sneed, a laborer for the Cook County Department of Transportation and Highways, against Laborers’ International Union of North America (LiUNA), Local 1092 alleging that it violated his First Amendment rights set forth in Janus for requiring him to continue to pay union dues after he resigned his union membership.
The union asserts that the dues deductions authorization Mr. Sneed signed is “irrevocable for the duration of time that [he] remains in a bargaining unit represented by the Union.” That means, although Mr. Sneed is no longer a union member, he must continue to pay union dues for the duration of his employment.
That directly contradicts the Court’s decision in Janus that government employees cannot be compelled to pay money to a union as a condition of their employment.
Sneed v. Laborers’ International Union of North America was filed in the U.S. District Court for Northern District of Illinois 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....