Chris Maher
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first heard Nov 2019
last heard Nov 2019
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So the Janus ruling, as it's called, by the Supreme Court in June of 2018, essentially banned provisions and union contracts that required government workers to either join a union or pay agency fees if that workplace was union represented.
So after the ruling, workers in these states have gotten the option to basically opt out.
They don't have to pay agency fees or be members of the union.
for public sector workers in about two dozen states that didn't already have such laws.
So again, it gives workers the opportunity to opt out of paying dues or fees to the union.
In those workplaces, the workers are still going to be represented by the union, so the union is still going to bargain contracts for them, potentially represent them in grievances and other issues that come up, but the workers themselves don't have to pay money to the unions.
That's right.
This is one of the biggest sore points for unions around this issue.
So basically, from the union's perspective, these workers would be called free riders or, you know, they're basically getting the services from the union.
They're getting representation, bargaining for contracts and everything, but they're not contributing to the unions themselves.
I think it can create tensions in some workplaces where you have these workers opting out and not paying dues, and then other people paying dues for the union that they probably support much more than the other workers.
A lot of times what's at the bottom of this is often a political difference of opinion.
So some of the workers don't want to be part of the union or pay money to the union because they don't like how the union is spending money.
their money, you know, political issues or other other things.
There's a variety of reasons for why people might want to opt out of the union.
There was one person I talked to who happened to be an accountant.
So she was calculating how much money she could save basically by not spending her
monthly dues.
Over 18 years, I think she calculated that she'd save about $10,000.
So in some instances, some unions have taken a pretty steep hit.
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