Utah

10th Circuit Agrees With Right to Work Foundation: Utah Unions Have No Right to Payroll Deduction for Politics

Nick Cote — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:46:16 -0400

10th Circuit Agrees With Right to Work Foundation: Utah Unions Have No Right to Payroll Deduction for Politics

But a more effective alternative would have been stopping government payroll deduction for all union dues

Salt Lake City, UT (April 22, 2009) – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit yesterday reversed itself and ruled to uphold a Utah statute prohibiting union officials from using payroll deduction to divert teachers’ and other government workers’ money into union electioneering.

Foundation Letter to the Editor: First Amendment Is Not a "Mere Loophole"

Patrick Semmens — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:43:50 -0400

The Salt Lake Tribune recently ran the following letter to the editor by Foundation Vice President Stefan Gleason in response to an editorial regarding the Foundation's recent victory in federal court over attempts by union partisans to silence the Foundation's legal aid program using Utah's campaign finance regulations:

"Paycheck Protection" Regulation Nixed

Justin Hakes — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:21:33 -0400

Another so-called "paycheck protection" campaign finance regulation has been struck down in federal court. (A similar law has been struck down in Utah.)

As noted by former Federal Election Commission chair Brad Smith in The Washington Times in the wake of the Right to Work Foundation's defensive victory at the U.S. Supreme Court in June, such regulations are both bad policy and bad politics.