BOOM! Supreme Court just dealt MAJOR BLOW to Unions!

by The Right Scoop

In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court just ruled that it violates the Constitution – specifically the First Amendment – for public-sector unions to force non-members to pay dues in the name of collective bargaining!

Here’s more from the AP:

The Supreme Court says government workers can’t be forced to contribute to labor unions that represent them in collective bargaining, dealing a serious financial blow to organized labor.

The justices are scrapping a 41-year-old decision that had allowed states to require that public employees pay some fees to unions that represent them, even if the workers choose not to join.

The 5-4 decision Wednesday fulfills a longtime wish of conservatives to get rid of the so-called fair share fees that non-members pay to unions in roughly two dozen states.

As you may have guessed, the dissenters in this case are Kagan, joined by Ginsburg, Breyer, and Sotomayor.

And it should be noted that this decision actually overturns a previous Supreme Court ruling on this issue.

As Amy Howe points out via SCOTUSblog live feed:

In reasonably plain English: This is a case about whether government employees who are represented by a union to which they do not belong can be required to pay a fee to cover the costs of collective bargaining. The plaintiff in this case, an Illinois state employee, argued that having to pay the fees violates the First Amendment. Today the Court agreed, ruling for the employee and against the union.

And…

This is a big decision. Kagan has strong words. Says decision “will have large-scale consequences. Public employee unions will lose a secure source of financial support. State and local governments that thought fair-share provisions furthered their interests will need to find new ways of managing their workforces.”

Good! It should have large scale consequences. People shouldn’t be forced to participate in something they want no part of.

But more worrisome to Democrats is that Unions are a huge cash cow for them, in large part because they can force people to participate in the name of collective bargaining. Not anymore!

I’m sure you guys remember what happened in Wisconsin when Scott Walker was elected and he took on the Unions. I expect we could see protests all over the country because of this decision. It will become the new ‘Citizens United’ case for Democrats in Congress.

Even Trumpy is celebrating this decision already:

Here’s the opinion if you’d like to read it:

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