Cuomo Bill-Signing Gives Unions Help Keeping Members After Court Ruling

Governor Cuomo April 12 signed into law a bill public-employee unions consider a powerful safeguard against a significant loss of dues-paying members if the U.S. Supreme Court later this spring rules in favor of an Illinois worker who said that it was unconstitutional to make him pay the equivalent of dues although he chose not to join a union.

Mr. Cuomo, in a ceremony before dozens of labor leaders and hundreds of other union officials at the lower-Manhattan headquarters of the United Federation of Teachers, called the lawsuit part of a drive by wealthy interests—who funded the costs of that lawsuit—with the help of the Trump Administration to dismantle “the union movement piece by piece” and hurt the middle class by doing so.