High Stakes in Union-Fee Case Before Supreme Court

Education Week: The face of the movement seeking to upend the public-employee labor sector has had a back-and-forth relationship with her own local teachers' union.

Rebecca Friedrichs, the lead plaintiff among a small group of California teachers whose case goes before the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 11, started her teaching career in a small school district in Orange County by refusing to join the local union. Later, she joined the union and even became an officer.

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