Supreme Court to hear case that could affect public employees

Supreme Court to hear case that could affect public employees

The Supreme Court is to hear an Illinois lawsuit that challenges the ability of public-sector unions to collect so-called agency fees - the charges that public sector unions in California collect from all employees they represent, regardless of whether workers want to belong to the bargaining group. Eric Heins, president of the California Teachers Association, said the move was “the culmination of decades of attacks on working people by corporate CEOs, the wealthiest 1% and the politicians that do their bidding to rig the economy in their favor, and its outcome could further send our country in the wrong direction.”

The Sacramento Bee

https://www.washingtonpost. com/politics/courts_law/ supreme-court-again-will- consider-mandatory-fees-to- public-employee-unions/2017/ 09/28/d9cf7aae-a454-11e7-8cfe- d5b912fabc99_story.html?hpid= hp_hp-more-top-stories_court- 12pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_ term=.637cadaec3c1