The American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors filed a brief Nov. 13 urging the U.S. Supreme Court not to overturn a 40-year-old ruling upholding union “fair-share” fees.
The petitioners in the case, 10 California Teachers who said being forced to pay union dues violated their First Amendment rights, are seeking to overturn the Abood v. Detroit Board of Education Supreme Court ruling. Doing so would allow members to stop paying dues to the unions that represent them, spurring existential fears by unions that their budgets could grow too meager to offer adequate representation. That, in turn, could prompt even more members to withhold their fees.
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