{"id":1640,"date":"2006-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"teachers-to-appeal-today-s-washington-state-supreme-court-ruling-striking-down-campaign-finance-law","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/teachers-to-appeal-today-s-washington-state-supreme-court-ruling-striking-down-campaign-finance-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers to Appeal Today\u2019s Washington State Supreme Court Ruling Striking Down Campaign Finance Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Seattle, WA (March 16, 2006)<\/strong> \u2014 Responding to today\u2019s 6-3 Washington State Supreme Court ruling striking down a state law requirement that union officials obtain the prior consent of nonunion public employees before spending mandatory union dues for politics, the National Right to Work Foundation announced that its legal team is preparing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds. Foundation attorneys \u2013 working jointly with Steven O\u2019Ban of Ellis, Li, and McKinstry of Seattle \u2013 originally filed the suit, <em>Davenport v. Washington Education Association (WEA)<\/em>, for more than 4,000 Washington teachers \u2013 who are not union members but who are forced to pay dues or fees \u2013 in Thurston County Superior Court. Judge Daniel Berschauer ruled that the teachers had an implied right of action under Initiative-134 to recover the fees the WEA had used, without their authorization, for political purposes. The trial court also certified the case as a class action for the thousands of nonmember teachers. But the long-awaited ruling today in <em>Davenport<\/em> upheld an appellate court\u2019s decision to overturn the trial court \u2013 thereby striking down the last remaining union dues provisions in I-134, Washington\u2019s troubled \u201cpaycheck protection\u201d law. But, the State Supreme Court\u2019s ruling directly conflicts with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, noted Justice Richard B. Sanders in his three-member dissent. \u201cThe majority turns the First Amendment on its head\u2026The suggestion that asking people to check a box once a year unduly interferes with the speech rights of those contributors borders on the frivolous\u2026There is no indication that any state has been held to have violated union members\u2019 rights by foreclosing mandatory collection of fees from nonmembers.\u201d \u201cWhile there is hope that the law can be salvaged, this situation shows how so-called paycheck protection laws are ineffective in halting the practice of forcing employees to function as ATM machines for union political operatives,\u201d said Stefan Gleason, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cThe only way to ensure employees are protected is to strip Washington union officials of their legislatively granted power to seize union dues as a job condition.\u201d Even though the WEA admits it spends millions of dollars each year on political activities, the much-hyped paycheck protection law has ultimately offered no relief to teachers. Even if the Supreme Court had reinstated the Thurston County court\u2019s rulings, the law would still only result in individual refunds of $10 per year, on average, under I-134. Substantially greater relief is still available to teachers under a settlement of a First Amendment lawsuit brought by Foundation attorneys in recent years. Under that settlement, nonmember teachers may annually object and reclaim more than $200 each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle, WA (March 16, 2006) \u2014 Responding to today\u2019s 6-3 Washington State Supreme Court ruling striking down a state law requirement that union officials obtain the prior consent of nonunion public employees before spending mandatory union dues for politics, the National Right to Work Foundation announced that its legal team is preparing an appeal to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1640","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Teachers to Appeal Today\u2019s Washington State Supreme Court Ruling Striking Down Campaign Finance Law - 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