Today's decision [1] 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 [2] to the High Court. Foundation Vice President Stefan Gleason summed up the case [3] 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 [4] 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.