Federal Court Rejects State Worker Collective Bargaining Challenge

Route Fifty: Washington state did not violate a childcare worker's rights to free speech and association by allowing a labor union to bargain on her behalf, a federal appeals court has ruled.

Lawyers for the woman pursuing the case argued the court should side with her based on language in the U.S. Supreme Court decision last year in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31—the case where the high court ruled it is unconstitutional to force public employees to pay certain union fees.

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