{"id":2231,"date":"2007-06-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-18T19:03:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T19:03:19","slug":"u-s-supreme-court-rules-in-national-right-to-work-foundation-s-case-union-officials-have-no-constitutional-right-to-spend-empl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/u-s-supreme-court-rules-in-national-right-to-work-foundation-s-case-union-officials-have-no-constitutional-right-to-spend-empl\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Supreme Court Rules in National Right to Work Foundation\u2019s Case: Union Officials Have No Constitutional Right to Spend Empl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>**Washington, DC (June 14, 2007)** &#8211; The U.S. Supreme Court today unanimously reversed a novel Washington State Supreme Court ruling that discovered a \u201cconstitutional right\u201d for union officials to spend dissenting employees\u2019 mandatory dues on political causes they oppose.  The ruling merely reinstates an ineffective state campaign finance law that had opened the door for courts to misinterpret the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s ruling comes in *Davenport v. Washington Education Association (WEA)*, a case brought by National Right to Work Foundation attorneys for Gary Davenport and more than 4,000 Washington teachers who are not union members, but who are nonetheless forced to pay union dues.<\/p>\n<p>In striking down the Washington High Court ruling, however, the U.S. Supreme Court avoided the more critical and far sweeping question &#8212; whether union officials should be able to automatically collect forced dues for politics from nonunion members in the first place.  That clarification, sought by Foundation attorneys would have freed roughly one million nonunion employees nationwide from each having hundreds of dollars in compulsory dues automatically deducted each year.  Surprisingly, the U.S. Solicitor General actually supported the union\u2019s position on this key question and tried to steer the Justices away from ruling in the employees\u2019 favor. <\/p>\n<p>Although pointing out that the court below had \u201cread far too much into our admonition that \u2018dissent is not to be presumed,\u2019\u201d the High Court did not rule against unions\u2019 objection policies used nationwide.  Under such policies, employees must do more than simply resign from union membership.  In order to reclaim fees spent for politics, union officials often require employees to object every single year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica\u2019s workers laboring under compulsory unionism are little better off after today\u2019s ruling,\u201d stated Stefan Gleason, vice president of the National Right to Work Foundation.  \u201cRather than promoting more ineffective campaign finance regulations that risk further undermining the First Amendment, sincere reformers should instead turn their attention to attacking the root problem of compulsory unionism.  No one should be forced to join or pay dues to a union in the first place.\u201d   <\/p>\n<p>The Washington State Supreme Court last year struck down the remaining union dues provisions in I-134 (also known as Section 760), Washington\u2019s troubled \u201cpaycheck protection\u201d campaign finance statute, and in the process created a precedent that union lawyers could have used to attack Right to Work laws across America.<\/p>\n<p>The Davenport case brought into focus how ineffective \u201cpaycheck protection\u201d campaign finance laws are in protecting employees laboring under forced unionism.  Although upheld by U.S Supreme Court, I-134 will only result in individual refunds of $10 per year, on average.  After the law originally took effect, union officials learned how to collect 60 percent more dues for politics simply by changing their accounting procedures and tweaking the nature of their expenditures. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cCourts reacting to this misguided \u2018paycheck protection\u2019 campaign finance law nearly turned the First Amendment upside down,\u201d said Gleason.  \u201cReformers in other states would be wise not to turn down this blind alley.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/pdfs\/davenport-ruling\/decision.pdf\">Download the decision<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For interviews, contact Justin Hakes, Legal Information Director, at (703) 770-3317<\/p>\n<p>For background on the Davenport decision, see our special <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/davenport\/\">*Davenport* Supreme Court Case Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**Washington, DC (June 14, 2007)** &#8211; The U.S. Supreme Court today unanimously reversed a novel Washington State Supreme Court ruling that discovered a \u201cconstitutional right\u201d for union officials to spend dissenting employees\u2019 mandatory dues on political causes they oppose. 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