{"id":10924,"date":"2019-04-17T11:39:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T16:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=10924"},"modified":"2019-04-17T11:39:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T16:39:16","slug":"bierman-final-brief-04172019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/bierman-final-brief-04172019\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Brief Filed Asking Supreme Court to Hear Case Challenging Forced Union Affiliation as First Amendment Violation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Minnesota home-based personal care providers argue being forced under SEIU union monopoly \u2018representation\u2019 violates their freedom to associate<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Washington, D.C. (April 17, 2019)<\/strong> \u2013 Today, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys filed the final brief in <i>Bierman v. Walz<\/i> asking the Supreme Court to hear a group of Minnesota home care providers\u2019 challenge to forced union affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>The home care providers are challenging a Minnesota state law used to force tens of thousands of home care providers under union monopoly \u201crepresentation.\u201d The providers, who work at home caring for disabled family members as part of a state-run Medicaid program, oppose union affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>The case\u2019s lead plaintiff, Teri Bierman, filed the suit with seven other home care providers to challenge a 2013 Minnesota state law used by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Healthcare Minnesota to force home care providers to associate with it as a condition of providing care under the state Medicaid program. <i>Bierman v. Walz<\/i> asks the Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional under the First Amendment\u2019s free association guarantee the unions\u2019 monopoly bargaining privileges, by which a union forces its representation on individuals receiving state funds who do not consent to the representation.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Foundation, issued the following statement about the case:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThese home care providers are bravely challenging an unconstitutional scheme that compels them to associate with a union to receive state funds to care for their own children in their own homes. We hope the Supreme Court takes this opportunity to apply the First Amendment\u2019s protection of freedom of association to Big Labor\u2019s unparalleled monopoly bargaining \u2018representation\u2019 privileges that force individuals to submit to union bosses\u2019 control.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Background Information<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Teri Bierman and the other home care providers provide critical care to their family members who receive state assistance to help pay for their care. Bierman provides care at home for her daughter, who suffers from cerebral palsy and requires care throughout the day. The other plaintiffs in the case care for children diagnosed with severe autism, epilepsy, Rubenstein-Taybi syndrome, or other significant disabilities. Like the other plaintiffs, Bierman receives aid from a Minnesota Medicaid program (which provides funds to families to care for disabled relatives).<\/p>\n<p>By asking the Court to declare monopoly bargaining a violation of the First Amendment, Foundation staff attorneys seek to build off two recent Foundation-won Supreme Court decisions. In the 2014 <i>Harris v. Quinn<\/i> decision, the Court applied exacting First Amendment scrutiny to rule that providers like the Bierman plaintiffs cannot be required to pay union fees.<\/p>\n<p>Next, in the June 2018 <i>Janus v. AFSCME<\/i> decision, the Court declared that forced union fees for all public sector employees violate the First Amendment and opened the door to further cases seeking to uphold workers\u2019 rights to freedom of speech and freedom of association. In his opinion for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the Court that \u201cdesignating a union as the employees\u2019 exclusive representative substantially restricts the rights of individual employees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both <i>Harris<\/i> and <i>Janus<\/i> were argued by National Right to Work Foundation staff attorney William Messenger, who is also the lead attorney in <i>Bierman v. Walz<\/i>. Bierman now asks the Supreme Court, for the first time, to apply the same First Amendment standard to forced association as it has already applied to forced subsidies of union speech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota home-based personal care providers argue being forced under SEIU union monopoly \u2018representation\u2019 violates their freedom to associate Washington, D.C. (April 17, 2019) \u2013 Today, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys filed the final brief in Bierman v. 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