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Daily Archives: March 29th, 2016

Labor movement finally catches a break as Supreme Court deadlocks in Friedrichs case

Excerpt: A right wing attempt to severe­ly weak­en pub­lic sec­tor unions end­ed in fail­ure today when the Supreme Court announced in a one-sen­tence rul­ing that it would not over­turn its 1977 deci­sion allow­ing such unions to charge non-mem­bers agency fees to cov­er the cost of rep­re­sent­ing them in col­lec­tive bar­gain­ing negotiations. Pre­sum­ably, the remain­ing mem­bers of […]
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Economic Security, Litigation, Policy Topics
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