New law strengthens workplace rights
For the past several years, we have been
speaking and writing about efforts by
anti-union organizations to have the U.S. Su-
preme Court overrule a more than 40-year-old
precedent and declare that the right of public
employee unions, including PBAs, to collect
agency fees from nonmembers is now unconsti-
tutional. These efforts have intensified because
of a change in the composition of the Supreme
Court to reflect a more employer-friendly and
anti-employee philoso