Here’s an idea whose time has come. Private businesses charging employees for the privilege of working for them. Who thinks this is a bad idea in a political climate willing to pay people to stay home?
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Hospitality Industry Union Demands Dues from Virus-Furloughed Workers
If we’re all in this together shouldn’t that mean that if we all lost pay, well, you get the idea. Not so fast, says “UNITE HERE Local 11, which represents more than 30,000 hotel employees in Southern California and Arizona.”
Is Your Local School Board Breaking the Law?
Ann Marie Banfield, writing last week, pointed out that some school boards around the state pay membership dues to the New Hampshire School Board Association (NHSBA) which then lobbies the legislature. State law prohibits the School Board from using any taxpayer dollars (so no money from the school budget) to pay those “dues.” It is … Read more
Breaking News: Mandatory Union Dues Violate First Amendment
Boom!
For these reasons, States and public-sector unions may no longer extract agency fees from nonconsenting employees. The First Amendment is violated when money is taken from nonconsenting employees for a public-sector union; employees must choose to support the union before anything is taken from them. Accordingly, neither an agency fee nor any other form of payment to a public-sector union may be deducted from an employee, nor may any other attempt be made to collect such a payment, unless the employee affirmatively consents to pay.
More from the opinion on the jump.
Yes, Dan, it’s for the children
The salient points of the Hillsboro-Deering Teachers’ Contract: