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Why SCOTUS Should Leave Well Enough Alone, Let Workers Build Unions

Posted On: Feb 09, 2016

Feb. 9, 2016 | U.S. LABOR | …News reports regarding the [Friedrichs v California Teachers Association] case suggest that the main threat to unions and workers posed by the elimination of the agency fee is the draining of union resources that can be used for political action, a major objective of the political right. Yet that threat, while real, is secondary to the more fundamental threat: the elimination of resources badly needed in order to represent workers in their work lives… alternet.org