New Battleground Emerges Over State, Local Government Union Fees

Route Fifty: Public worker unions that represent state and local government employees are confronting new legal challenges after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month that fees they’d been collecting from non-members were unconstitutional.

Employees who did not join unions but had “agency” or “fair share” fees deducted from their pay have filed lawsuits in an effort to get that money back. States and local governments may be unable to avoid the legal fray. A lawsuit filed in Washington state last week names Gov. Jay Inslee and another state officials as defendants alongside a union.

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