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Labor/Employment

Dec. 10, 2013

Teachers union wins court challenge to 'agency shop' law

A federal judge granted judgment on the pleadings in favor of the California Teachers Association in a case challenging the constitutionality of a state law that lets the union collect fees from nonmembers.

By Laura Hautala

Daily Journal Staff Writer


A federal judge granted judgment on the pleadings Thursday in favor of the California Teachers Association in a case challenging the constitutionality of California's "agency shop" law, which lets the teachers union collect fees from nonmembers.


The plaintiffs - a group of teachers and the Ohio-based Christian Educators Association International - asked judge Josephine L. Staton in the Central District to ...

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