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Two new class action lawsuits in Minnesota seek nearly $19 million in returned union fees

The unions, AFSCME Council 5 and Minnesota Association of Professional Employees (MAPE) collected fees for years from workers who did not want to join a union.

Public Employees Sue Unions for $19 Million in Post-Janus Case – The Center Square

The federal class-action lawsuit, Brown v. AFSCME Council 5, seeks to recover fees paid by 8,000 Minnesota state and local workers to the union prior to the 2018 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that mandatory fees to the union were unconstitutional. The federal class-action lawsuit, Fellows...

Two New Class Action Lawsuits in Minnesota Seek Nearly $19 Million in Returned Union Fees – NRTW

MINNEAPOLIS (May 11, 2020) – Today, six Minnesota state employees sued two of the state’s largest government unions for an estimated recovery of $19 million in union fees paid by state and local employees. The two class action lawsuits claim that because the U.S. Supreme...

Brown v. AFSCME Council 5

AFSCME Council 5 collected fees for years from workers who did not want to join a union. The lawsuit against AFSCME may net as much as $13 million in recovered fees for 8,000 state and local workers who paid fees to the union prior to...

Brown v AFSCME Council 5

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