Is Bush's Top Lawyer Taking Orders from Big Labor?

Stefan Gleason — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:25:04 -0400

U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, the Bush administration's top lawyer, has just inflicted more damage on America's working men and women laboring under compulsory unionism. Does President Bush even know what his administration's lawyer is doing?

This week, the too-clever-by-half lawyer filed a brief in the National Right to Work Foundation's latest pending U.S. Supreme Court case, Locke v. Karass, and has taken a position that surely must please the union bosses. The High Court in Locke will examine the criteria for determining how much non-union members must pay to a union where they do not enjoy the fundamental protection of a Right to Work law.

National Right to Work Foundation Makes 14th Trip to U.S. Supreme Court

Justin Hakes — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:52:09 -0500

Today's decision by the U.S. Supreme to take up the National Right to Work Foundation's Locke case on behalf of employees marks the Foundation's 14th trip to the High Court. Foundation Vice President Stefan Gleason summed up the case this way:

“No one should be compelled to pay union dues just to get or keep a job. But where union officials have obtained this special
privilege from the legislature, they still have no legal authority to
make non-union public servants in Maine pay for union activity across America.”

The National Right to Work Foundation's most recent victory at the High Court came in 2007, under Davenport v. WEA, a crucial defensive victory. In that case, the Court ruled that union officials do not have a "constitutional right" to spend employees' forced union dues on political causes that they oppose.