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Workers' Rights
Your Voice, Your Dollars
If you work for a public school district, city hall, a state agency, another government body – or any other kind of local, state, or federal government entity – you have the right to decide whether you want to join a union at your workplace. If you decide union membership isn’t for you, then you are not obligated to pay the union at your workplace any kind of dues or fees, and you have the U.S. Supreme Court case Janus v. AFSCME to back you up on that.
The Liberty Justice Center represented Mark Janus all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to protect his right to spend his money how he wants. The decision to join or financially support a union is an important and deeply personal one for anyone who takes a government job. Before deciding whether union membership is right for you, it is important to know what’s at stake and what rights you have.
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Scandal Recap: Stacy Davis Gates’ Leadership of Chicago Teachers Union
(Illinois Policy)—Chicago Teachers Union president Stacy Davis Gates has said some wild things, made enemies at other unions, prompted her members to sue, ran a deficit, didn’t pay her taxes or utilities and sent her son to private school instead of letting her members educate him. She faces a union...
Trump’s Order Ending Union Contracts Ripe for Legal Challenge
(Bloomberg Law)—The Trump administration’s attempt to leverage a little-used law covering national security-related workers in order to cancel union contracts across the federal workforce is poised to draw lawsuits claiming it was misapplied to hundreds of thousands of government employees. President Donald Trump on Thursday night directed dozens of federal...
Liberty Justice Center Files Lawsuits Against Public-Sector Unions Over Employee Rights
(Legal Newsline)—More than six years after the Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME, government employees are still engaged in legal battles with public-sector unions over their rights. The Liberty Justice Center has filed three lawsuits on behalf of government workers against their respective unions. The Janus ruling established that...
Legal Group Sues Public-Sector Unions Over Workers’ Rights Issues
(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....
Opinion: As Unions Fight Reform, Trump Should Assert Executive Power
(The Washington Times)—Americans are right to be concerned about abuses of executive power. After all, the Biden administration tried to use executive power to do things the Constitution allows only Congress (if anyone) to do, such as forgive student loan debt, impose vaccine and mask mandates, force environmental, social and...
New Jersey Plumber Wins Case Against Union over Illegal Deductions
(Tampa Free Press)—The Liberty Justice Center has secured a significant win for workers’ rights, as a New Jersey union has agreed to settle a lawsuit involving unlawful paycheck deductions from a local plumber’s wages. The case centered on Nicolo Giangrasso, a plumber employed by the Hamilton Township School District, who...