Seven California teachers believe teacher unions violated their constitutional rights by forcing them to pay union fees, so they have filed a class-action lawsuit trying to recoup their money.
The July 3 lawsuit comes after the Supreme Court ruled 5–4 in the Janus v. AFSCME 31 case making it unconstitutional under the First Amendment to use compulsory agency fees for public employees.
If the lawsuit is successful, the plaintiffs want to “refund all fair-share service fees or agency fees unlawfully withheld or collected” from them.
Plaintiffs believe the union fees violated their First Amendment free speech rights by forcing them to “subsidize private speech on matters of substantial public concern,” according to the lawsuit.
“The teachers are asking the unions, which took all that money, to give their hard-earned money,” said John Bursch, a lawyer who helped file the lawsuit. Bursch added that the teachers are asking for three years of refunds from the teacher unions.
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I hope they get it back. Unions are nothing but organized crime.
ReplyDeleteUnions help build this country my guess your a Snowflake Liberal in mommy's basement with Zero job.
DeleteIm not a snowflake im a vet do have a job and still think unions are lobbies for left wing progressive,commie, marxist democrat crap. Hope they go the way of democrats klan plan... Guess the leftarded Democrats gonna have to find a another new game again. As the unions are sued out of exsistance.
DeleteWhat's up, its nice post about media print, we all
ReplyDeleteknow media is a wonderful source of data.
Forcing people to pay for words that don't represent their views is wrong. Give 'em back their money.
ReplyDeleteNOBODY forced Anything on them it was right there in Black and White but the same people complaining are the first ones running for help by the union when they get in Trouble.
Delete@6:53 To work for the State in the position I have, you are FORCED to pay dues (or were, until recently!) The $ was used to promote liberal candidates and ideas I do not believe in-you were allowed to direct the dues to another non-profit, but the union people made things very difficult to do that. Unions had a place in the history of this country, but they have turned into basically a political machine.
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