Supreme Court is being asked to decide if Unions will LOSE rights to negotiate for non-members!

This is big.

 

Unions like teachers' unions could lose sole rights to negotiate for all employees, even non-union members.

 

A professor in Maine is seeking to end forced representation of non-union members and the case is going to the Supreme Court. You have to read the article to the end to understand what is going on. Basically, two years ago, the "Janus" case determined that unions could not force membership on employees as they did in some states.

 

That mostly affected states that did not have "right to work" laws.

 

Now this case says that if the Janus case specifies that union membership cannot be forced on an employee, like a teacher, then it was unfair that the union still had the only negotiating rights for all the employees like teachers, and that employees could not negotiate their own deal.

 

That would end union power, and with the judges being appointed by Trump, it could happen. Then unions would lose rights to negotiate for non-members as they do now, even in right to work states like Florida.

 

For instance, most School Districts in Florida, a right to work state, cannot force dues collection or membership on employees, but if they get 50% of employees to join them, they are certified as the only negotiating agent for ALL employees. That would change if this case is decided in favor of non-union members.

 

Time to end union control of negotiation rights of non-members, especially of public employees, since they then take dues and contribute to biased political candidates or national organizations that the employees or non-employees do not like, such as the SEIU or NEA or FEA. A good example is that the FEA (Florida Education Association), which is supported by the Lake County Education Association (Teacher's Union) supported a socialist (Gillum) for Governor in Florida when many members may not have liked that choice.

 

If I was a labor attorney, I would start building prospect lists to represent employer groups without affiliation with ANY union. Perhaps work with more educated and in-demand STEM teachers who could negotiate for more wages than others.

 

2020 will be an interesting year.

Vance Jochim

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