Written by Andrew Morris
Union workers have filed a petition to the Supreme Court requesting a ban of mandatory salary deductions as part of a union fee.
The petition calls upon the 2018 Janus Court decision which outlawed mandatory union fees based on the violation of the First Amendment. The petition contends that the original 5-4 ruling was not completely effective in prohibiting Union deductions which are great for the workers.
An excerpt from the petition states, “This case is an ideal vehicle to resolve the exceptionally important question whether the First Amendment or the [Railway Labor Act] protects hundreds of thousands of railway and airline employees from having to opt-out of subsidizing expressive associations’ political and ideological activities.”
Unions have long tyrannized both workers and organizations, but the petition seeks to limit this power through the ban of small “window periods” in which workers can opt-out of Union fees. The problem here is workers can only drop out during these periods, otherwise, they are charged the fee throughout the following term.
Additionally, the petition calls for the Court to acknowledge that the “window periods” were never sanctioned in the first place. The petition, filed last Tuesday, is likely to pass, because of the 6-3 conservative judge’s lead in favor of workers’ speech rights under the First Amendment.
