How Courts Could Free Even More People from Unions in the Year Ahead

by Jacob Huebert
January 22, 2019

Here’s a good New Year’s resolution for the courts this year: Bring more freedom to more Americans.

Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a huge victory for free-speech rights when it ruled that governments can’t force their employees to give money to a union in the landmark Janus v. AFSCME case.

Because of that decision, some five million government workers in 22 states, who had been forced to give part of every paycheck to a union just to keep their jobs, are now free to choose what political advocacy groups they will and won’t support with their money. The decision also means that government unions can’t count on forced fees to fund their political agenda as they did in the past.

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