Late last year, attorneys for the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and the Harrisburg, Pa.-based Fairness Center asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case, Goldstein v. PSC/ CUNY , challenging such trampling of public employees’ First Amendment rights. […]
Mark Mix, the president of both the Right to Work Committee and the Right to Work Foundation, commented:
“In 2018’s Janus v. AFSCME, a case argued and won on behalf of an independent-minded Illinois public employee by then-Foundation staff attorney and now-Foundation Vice President Bill Messenger, the Supreme Court stated that union ‘exclusivity’ in the government sector is constitutionally problematic.
“To be precise, the Janus majority opinion acknowledged that ‘the rights of individual [public] employees’ are ‘substantially restrict[ed] ’ whenever they are forced to allow a union to which they don’t belong and with which they don’t agree to speak for them with regard to key workplace matters.
“Unfortunately, none of the federal courts considering challenges to government-sector union monopoly bargaining post-Janus has seriously grappled with the question of whether politicians should be permitted to keep on ‘substantially restricting’ public employees’ rights to please Big Labor.
“And on January 13, the Supreme Court announced it would not review the 2024 appellate court ruling in favor of government union bosses and city university bureaucrats in Goldstein v. PSC/CUNY.”
All contents from this article were originally published on the National Right to Work Committee Website.
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