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Fair-Share Dues Fight: City Unions Coalesce To Sway High Court

By DAN ROSENBLUM
Posted 11/23/15

Speaking to several hundred of his members at a recent annual gathering, Ernest Logan, the president of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, paused while listing recent union victories. He focused on a case being reviewed in the U.S. Supreme Court that could allow public-sector members to opt out of paying for union representation.

“Some of you here, if you didn’t have to pay dues, you wouldn’t,” he said, as the audience laughed. “See, I know. I know you because I know human nature. And human nature says if I can get it for free, why should I pay for it?”

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