{"id":2272,"date":"2006-11-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:24:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:24:53","slug":"an-astounding-35-groups-sign-briefs-supporting-washington-teachers-in-u-s-supreme-court-controversy-over-union-dues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/an-astounding-35-groups-sign-briefs-supporting-washington-teachers-in-u-s-supreme-court-controversy-over-union-dues\/","title":{"rendered":"An Astounding 35 Groups Sign Briefs Supporting Washington Teachers in U.S. Supreme Court Controversy Over Union Dues"},"content":{"rendered":"

**Washington, DC (November 15, 2006)** \u2013 A diverse group of 35 legal foundations, public policy groups, and federal government agencies this week filed supporting briefs asking the nation\u2019s highest court to reverse a novel Washington State Supreme Court decision that found a constitutional \u201cright\u201d for union officials to spend on politics the forced dues extracted from nonunion employees. A failure to overturn the activist Washington ruling might jeopardize America\u2019s 22 state Right to Work laws which ban forced union dues altogether.<\/p>\n

The 35 parties from across the country filed 14 amicus (or \u201cfriend of the court\u201d) briefs in *Davenport v. Washington Education Association (WEA)* and *Washington v. WEA*, which are scheduled for oral arguments on January 10, 2007. In the Davenport case, National Right to Work Foundation attorneys are representing approximately 4,000 nonunion Washington State teachers. A list of the amici, as well as their underlying briefs, is available on the Foundation\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

In addition to asking for a reversal of the Washington State Supreme Court\u2019s novel finding of a constitutional \u201cright\u201d for union officials to spend the compulsory dues of nonunion members, lead counsel Milton Chappell, a 30-year Foundation veteran in assisting union-abused employees, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify that it had never approved a pervasive union procedure designed to force nonunion members to pay full union dues, including hundreds of dollars per employee which are spent for a wide array of activities unrelated to collective bargaining. <\/p>\n

While seeking to overturn the Washington State court\u2019s dangerous precedent involving the First Amendment, Foundation attorneys are going on the offensive by asking the High Court to clarify its 45-year-old \u201cdissent is not to be presumed\u201d statement. Union officials have exploited that phrase from a 1961 ruling to force employees who resign union membership to take the additional affirmative step of objecting annually to cut off the use of their forced dues on politics and other non-bargaining functions. A victory on this argument would dramatically increase the impact of previous U.S. Supreme Court rulings won by Foundation attorneys establishing that nonunion employees cannot be lawfully compelled to pay for politics, lobbying, organizing, and a wide array of other non-bargaining activities. <\/p>\n

Surprisingly, the Evergreen Freedom Foundation \u2013 a longtime proponent of Washington\u2019s well-meant, but ineffective, \u201cpaycheck protection\u201d law \u2013 argued in its amicus brief that the funds covered by the law were \u201cminiscule\u2026 less than \u00bc of 1% of the WEA\u2019s total expenditures.\u201d The law only governs a small fraction of union officials\u2019 state and local electioneering expenditures.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile there may now be nearly universal agreement that the underlying campaign finance statute has been ineffective, all agree that it is indefensible to use it as a springboard to create an even larger problem \u2013 a perversion of the long-standing interpretation of the First Amendment,\u201d said Stefan Gleason, vice president of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cThe Washington ruling cannot be allowed to stand because of the collateral damage it is already causing to employee rights nationwide. Only weeks ago, a Colorado court relied on it in a similar ruling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Foundation attorneys and Steven O\u2019Ban of Ellis, Li, and McKinstry of Seattle filed Davenport in 2001 for more than 4,000 Washington teachers who are not union members, but are still forced to pay dues or be fired. In recent days, Washington Attorney General Robert McKenna also filed arguments for the state in a related case, *Washington v. WEA*.<\/p>\n

Key Legal Documents<\/b><\/p>\n

Merits brief filed by National Right to Work Foundation Staff Attorney Milton Chappell and Steve O\u2019Ban (Davenport v. WEA<\/i>)<\/a>
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Merits brief filed by Washington State Attorney General Robert McKenna (Washington v. WEA<\/i>)<\/a><\/p>\n

*Amicus* Briefs
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13 Public Policy Groups (Evergreen Freedom Foundation,Cascade Policy Institute, Commonwealth Foundation for Public Policy, Excellent Education for Everyone, Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, Georgia Public Policy Foundation, James Madison Institute, John Locke Foundation, Nevada Policy Research Institute, Pacific Research Institute, Pioneer Institute for Public Policy Research, Small Business Hawaii & Competitive Enterprise Institute)
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Association of American Educators<\/a>
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American Legislative Exchange Council<\/a>
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Cato Institute, Reason Foundation & Center for Individual Freedom<\/a>
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States of Colorado, Alabama, Idaho, Ohio, Utah & Virginia<\/a>
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Mackinac Center for Public Policy<\/a>
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Religious Objector Members of the Northwest Professional Educators & Pacific Justice Institute<\/a>
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Pacific Legal Foundation<\/a>
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Institute for Justice<\/a>
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National Federation of Independent Business Legal Foundation & James Madison Center for Free Speech<\/a>
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United States Solicitor General, US Department of Labor, US Department of Justice & Federal Election Commission<\/a>
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Campaign Legal Center<\/a>
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Mountain States Legal Foundation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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