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Monday, February 26, 2018

High court weighs rights of ‘free riders’ in government employee unions

WASHINGTON — In a closely watched labor case, justices of the Supreme Court appeared likely to favor the rights of individual government employees not to contribute to unions over the unions’ insistence that such defections would undermine their collective-bargaining strength. Janus v. AFSCME grew out of a worker’s objection in Illinois but has ramifications for labor-friendly Connecticut, where unions for state and local employees are strongly entrenched.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/High-court-weighs-rights-of-free-riders-in-12710680.php

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