Right to Work is WRONG
Having a powerful partner on the other side of the bargaining table can make for happier workplaces and better public services.
As argument commenced at the Supreme Court last Monday, most eyes were on Justice Antonin Scalia. While still the Court’s conservative paterfamilias, union supporters were looking to Scalia as a potential swing vote in their favor in the case, Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association.
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Ohio workers stand with our brothers and sisters in West Virginia in their fight against Right to Work is wrong. WV lawmakers show they are, very clearly, anti-worker.
A case the Supreme Court will hear on Monday morning threatens to undermine a four-decade-old ruling that upheld a key source of funding for public-sector unions, the last major bastion of unionized workers in America.
In the 1977 decision Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, the justices ruled that public unions may charge all employees — members and nonmembers alike — for the costs of collective bargaining related to their employment. For nonmembers, these are known as “fair-share fees.” But nonmembers may not be compelled to pay for the union’s political or ideological activities.
Stephanie Wiley is a child care attendant in Ohio. Every day, she wakes up before the sun rises to help children with special needs who ride the bus to school.
But this week she did something unusual. She flew to Washington, DC, to deliver a petition signed by 100,000 workers across the nation, demanding that a the Center for Individual Rights stop attacking working people. Watch the video to learn more.
