Government Union Bosses vs. the First Amendment
State lawmakers can and should act to protect public workers from forced union representation and monopoly bargaining laws.
State lawmakers can and should act to protect public workers from forced union representation and monopoly bargaining laws.
Foundation Legal Director William Messenger, Fairness Center General Counsel Nathan McGrath, and CUNY Professors Mitchell Langbert and Avraham Goldstein standing in from of the courthouse
PRPB Employees successfully defend right under Janus v. AFSCME to refrain from supporting unwanted Union of Organized Civilian Employees
Facing state prosecution for violating City employee’s rights under 2018 Janus US Supreme Court ruling, IBEW stops dues seizure & issues refund to Chicago 911 operator
Without Janus, virtually all of these employees would still be bankrolling a union to keep their jobs. But the data show that, thanks to Janus, nearly 730,000 of them are not having any union dues withheld from their paychecks.
For four years, Gov. Michael Dunleavy (R) has fought to ensure Alaska state employees can exercise their First Amendment rights under Janus. His administration is now attempting to bring this battle to the U.S. Supreme Court.
National Right to Work Foundation attorneys filed an amicus brief in Littler v. OAPSE with the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
JFS Employees exercised constitutional right to stop funding AFSCME union activities, but union-imposed restriction blocked exercise of right for over 90 percent of year
When Right to Work advocates made their first valiant, although diffuse, efforts to stop the spread of government-imposed compulsory union membership in the private sector during World War II, few, if any, of them imagined that, within less than a…