NJ Cops June2018 | Page 12

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