We All Must Live With Mitch McConnell’s Proudest Moment
- 6 years ago
We All Must Live With Mitch McConnell’s Proudest Moment
Any burden the fees impose on employees’ First Amendment rights is justified by the need to eliminate free riders — workers who enjoy union benefits without having
to pay for them, which can deplete the unions’ resources in states where they are legally required to represent all workers, members and nonmembers alike.
They and the right-wing groups that support them quickly regrouped around another plaintiff, a child-support specialist from Illinois named Mark Janus, who makes the same argument the California
teachers did: Activities by public-sector unions are inherently political, so it’s impossible to separate the costs of collective bargaining from those of political lobbying.
Any burden the fees impose on employees’ First Amendment rights is justified by the need to eliminate free riders — workers who enjoy union benefits without having
to pay for them, which can deplete the unions’ resources in states where they are legally required to represent all workers, members and nonmembers alike.
They and the right-wing groups that support them quickly regrouped around another plaintiff, a child-support specialist from Illinois named Mark Janus, who makes the same argument the California
teachers did: Activities by public-sector unions are inherently political, so it’s impossible to separate the costs of collective bargaining from those of political lobbying.