janus vs afscme non member voting rights

“Public employers’ ability to partner with their workers’ unions to improve public services like education, home care, police, and firefighting also is put at risk. “This decision not only threatens to roil public-sector labor relations in the 22 states that have adopted fair-share arrangements, it also challenges the ability of 17 million workers in public-sector unions-teachers, nurses, police officers, firefighters, and many others-to act collectively to win higher wages, better working conditions, safer workplaces, and stronger health and retirement security. “In a radical decision upending decades of established law, five justices on the Supreme Court have now held that public employers and the unions their employees form may not require non-union workers to contribute a ‘fair share fee’ to help defray costs the unions incur for bargaining and representing all members of the bargaining unit-even though these non-union workers receive all the benefits and protections their co-workers negotiate.

This decision only stiffens the resolve of workers to band together and step up their organizing efforts. “Today, the Supreme Court has further tipped the scales of justice against working people, with a decision that attacks workers’ basic right to join together in unions to improve wages and working conditions for all. AFSCME, in which the Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that public-sector unions may not collect “fair share” fees from non-union workers who benefit from the union-negotiated contract but are not dues-paying members: The following is a statement from Christine Owens, Executive Director, National Employment Law Project, on the U.S.

Janus vs afscme non member voting rights