Federal Lawsuit Hits IGUA Union for Illegally Forcing DC-Based Security Guard to Pay for Union Politics
IGUA union officials provided contradictory information on amount a Master Security guard must pay the union to keep a job
The United States Supreme Court has stepped into a dispute between the state of Idaho and labor unions over payroll deductions for political activities, reports the Associated Press.
The state asked the justices to take the case, which involves an Idaho law that prohibits cities, counties and school districts from making payroll deductions for donations to political candidates or parties.
Five labor unions and the Idaho state AFL-CIO successfully challenged part of the law in the lower federal courts.
A federal judge and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco concluded that local units of government and school districts could choose to stop making the payroll deductions, but that the state could not force them to do so.
“Payroll deduction should not be a constitutionally protected right,” said Stefan Gleason, vice president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which filed court papers in the case. “We feel it’s bad public policy to have government bodies essentially be bagmen for union political monies.”
IGUA union officials provided contradictory information on amount a Master Security guard must pay the union to keep a job
Largely thanks to the Right to Work attorney-won U.S. Supreme Court decision in Janus v. AFSCME, union bosses like NEA President Becky Pringle are no longer able to block virtually all meaningful education policy reforms.
Thanks to the Committee's election-year program, union-label candidates like Sen. Jon Tester (Mont.) are being given a choice: pledge to change course and support Right to Work going forward, or face the potential political consequences.