LOSER: WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

June 14, 2007

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The US Supreme Court, ruling in a Washington state case, said today that labor unions can’t ‘jack’ your money and use it without your permission. Of course, since WEA saw that they were going to lose this case, because, you know it all UNCONSTITUTIONAL and everything, they’ve since prevailed on Queen Christine and her minions to do it anyway under state law (which I’ll get to later when I get more time to run this down).
Here’s what Scalia said today writing for the majority:

Justice Antonin Scalia said that Washington’s “modest limitation” on the use of those fees does not violate the First Amendment since the state could have barred the union from using non-member fees for any lobbying or political activity. “Unions have no constitutional right to the fees of non-member employees,” Scalia said. Instead, the court found, public employees who don’t choose to belong to a union have a free speech right to withhold the use of their money.

Here’s a backgrounder from our friends at Evergreen Freedom Foundation who helped in this case.

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