No one will speak for the unemployed because they pay no
union dues. Hollow
The latest suit argues the NJEA is defying Janus by collecting
union dues from employees who opted out of the payroll deductions.
The court will decide whether state government workers who do not wish to belong to a union and pay
union dues must still pay a service fee to cover the unions costs in negotiating and enforcing the terms of collective bargaining agreements.
Some argue that it is unfair to force them to pay
union dues if they don't support the union.
Rebecca Friedrichs, who had served on the executive committee of her union's local in Orange County, Calif., had sought to avoid paying any
union dues to the California Teachers Association.
Fate intervened when Justice Antonin Scalia died last month, and on Tuesday the
union dues case sputtered to an anti-climactic 4-4 tie.
And he was only denied a treble when
Union Dues crashed at the final flight in the Killinan Maiden Hurdle, with the race apparently in safe-keeping.