07/02/2018
Teacher op-ed: Unions can be great for workers. But supporting workers’ rights isn’t political, and it doesn’t make you anti-union. As a Minnesota teacher, I didn’t have a choice about
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07/01/2018
By Mark Janus — July 1, 2018 Mark Janus was the plaintiff in Janus v. AFSCME. My home state of Illinois is in financial free fall. The state has billions of dollars in unpaid bills, has unbalanced budgets and is bleeding people and money. A state…
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06/29/2018
Teacher Op-ed: In my home state of Alaska, teachers and other public employees are forced to pay fees to unions they didn’t choose to represent them, in order to hold the jobs they love.
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06/28/2018
Now 5.5 million employees in 22 states have their First Amendment freedom of association rights restored — including employees right here in Washington.
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06/27/2018
The state will stop deducting agency fees from workers who have opted out of the union, effective immediately. As of June 27, the state of Illinois will no longer deduct union agency fees from the paychecks of nonmember public employees. Previously, Illinois workers were forced to pay fees to…
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06/27/2018
ALBANY – The Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that unions cannot collect fees from non-members could have wide implications across New York, which has the nation’s most heavily unionized public sector. Unions in New York derided the groundbreaking decision by the closely divided Supreme Court as it may weaken their…
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06/27/2018
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Wednesday that nonunion government workers can’t be forced to pay dues or other fees to support a union, further diminishing the power of organized labor and setting up what right-to-work proponents called the “hard work” of protecting free speech rights for the nation’s government employees.
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06/27/2018
June 27, 2018 — Will Swaim, president of the California Policy Center Just in time for Independence Day, the U.S. Supreme Court has delivered millions into greater liberty – and a day of reckoning for public-sector union leaders. The court struck down as unconstitutional…
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06/27/2018
In a landmark decision for First Amendment rights, the U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that public employees cannot be compelled to pay union fees as a condition of employment. The 5-4 ruling in Janus v. AFSCME restores the First Amendment rights of freedom of association and free speech to more than five million…
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06/27/2018
In its 5-4 ruling Wednesday in Janus vs. AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees), the Supreme Court overturned decades-old precedent that allowed government unions to require public employees to pay union fees or risk being fired. Now millions of teachers, police officers, firefighters and other…
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