Wednesday, June 27, 2018

SCOTUS Ends Public Sector Unions' Funneling Dues to Dems

The Supreme Court has ruled in the case of Janus v. AFSCME that public employees can't be coerced to pay dues to public sector unions, which lobby on behalf of a wide range of left-wing causes and funnel significant amounts of dues to Democratic candidates.

Astonishingly, some libertarians have expressed opposition to the right-to-work provision of the Taft Hartley Act (an amendment to the National Labor Relations Act). As a matter of common sense, allowing employees to opt out of unions is a major blow both to the Democratic Party and to statism. Today's landmark decision is related not to right-to-work laws but to public sector employees, who are covered by state labor laws

 A significant reduction in public employee dues money may result.  The decision will hamstring the Democrats and reduce the pressure that the unions can bring to expand Medicaid, prisons, and similar big government policies. 

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