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National Employee Freedom Week: 6 Janus Rights Every Government Employee Should Know

August 2022

August 14-20, 2022 marks National Employee Freedom Week, a national celebration of government employees rights regarding union membership. Government workers’ First Amendment rights were restored in 2018 when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Janus v. AFSCME that union membership was optional and workers could...

‘Excessive Engagement in Politics’ Causing Mass Exodus From Nation’s Largest Labor Unions: Analysts – The Epoch Times

According to a survey of 3,000 potential union members conducted in 2021, "excessive engagement in politics is the number one obstacle" preventing them from joining a union

What are Janus Rights? 6 Things Every Government Employee Should Know About Their Rights

April 2022

Employees of local, state or federal government entities have "Janus Rights" - the right to decide whether they want to join a public union.

Mark Janus files brief defending WA workers’ right to stop union dues

Mark Janus, the lead plaintiff in the landmark 2018 Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court decision, submitted an amicus brief in Washington case.

‘Principle of It’: Mark Janus Fights to Get Union Dues Back After Supreme Court Win – The Washington Times

The excerpt below is from an article by James Varney that appeared May 31, 2020, on The Washington Times. The 2018 ruling known simply as Janus freed nonunion public employees from being forced to pay union dues, which the unions called “fees.” Mr. Janus...

Janus lawyers applaud Texas Attorney General for new opinion siding with public employees’ rights

In a new opinion built on the rights secured for public-sector workers in the U.S. Supreme Court’s Janus v. AFSCME ruling, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton affirms the right of Texas public employees to make a free choice whether or not to join or remain in...

Ramon Baro v. Lake County Federation of Teachers

Ariadna Ramon Baro is from Spain and is in her first year of a three-year cultural exchange program teaching at Waukegan High School. After arriving in the United States in summer 2019, she attended an orientation run by officials from the Waukegan Community Unit School...

Full Measure interview: Forced to pay

December 2019

The federal class-action lawsuit, Mattos v. AFSCME Council 3, seeks to recoup “agency” fees paid by Maryland state employees before the US Supreme Court ruled the mandatory fees were unconstitutional. This interview first appeared December 15, 2019 on Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson A Supreme Court decision...

Chicago Tribune: Illinois lawmakers try to skirt the impact of Janus. Why Gov. Pritzker should say no.

November 2019

This editorial first appeared November 25, 2019 in the Chicago Tribune. Since June 27, 2018, when the U.S. Supreme Court limited the ability of public employees unions to collect mandatory dues, Mark Janus has been traveling the country on an information campaign. Janus is the Springfield plaintiff who...

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