In Hill v. SEIU, the Liberty Justice Center represented personal assistants and child care providers to end SEIU’s exclusive representation. The government’s appointment of an exclusive representative to speak on the behalf of all personal assistants and child care providers violates their First Amendment right to freedom of association.
The excerpt below is from an article by Doug Finke that appeared November 11, 2015, on State Journal-Register.
A new federal lawsuit has been filed saying that child care providers and home caregivers are having their First Amendment rights violated by being forced into a labor union.
The lawsuit, filed by the Liberty Justice Center and the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, is seeking to overturn a state law that says the Service Employees International Union is the “exclusive representative” of thousands of child care providers and home caregivers.
Read the full article on State Journal-Register.