Labor/Employment
May 7, 2013
New First Amendment case poses existential threat to public employee unions
A scarcely-noticed lawsuit filed last week in federal district court in Los Angeles is challenging California's system for collecting union dues from government employees. By Peter Scheer
Public employee unions face a new, and mortal, threat. It's not the unfunded liability of union pension plans or municipal governments' resort to bankruptcy to void union contracts. It's not state initiatives to restrict collective bargaining rights or other outpourings of voter resentment. No, the new existential threat facing government unions comes from ... the First Amendment.
In a scarcely-noticed lawsuit filed last week...
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