{"id":2279,"date":"2006-09-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:24:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:24:54","slug":"u-s-supreme-court-takes-up-appeal-of-controversial-ruling-granting-union-officials-a-right-to-forced-union-dues-for-politics-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/u-s-supreme-court-takes-up-appeal-of-controversial-ruling-granting-union-officials-a-right-to-forced-union-dues-for-politics-0\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Supreme Court Takes Up Appeal of Controversial Ruling Granting Union Officials a &#8216;Right&#8217; to Forced Union Dues for Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>**Washington, DC (September 26, 2006)** \u2014 A group of teachers receiving free legal help from the National Right to Work Foundation today persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case in which Washington State\u2019s high court struck down a state law intending to limit the misuse of mandatory union dues for certain political activities.  The Washington State Attorney General also joined in the appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The voided Washington law required union officials to obtain the prior consent of nonunion public employees before spending their mandatory union dues on a tiny fraction of what the union actually spends on politics.  However, in the process of striking down the law, the state Supreme Court fabricated a constitutional \u201cright\u201d for union officials to spend the money of employees who want nothing to do with the union on politics.<\/p>\n<p>If upheld, the Washington State Supreme Court rulings in *Davenport v. Washington Education Association (WEA) Union* and *Washington v. WEA Union* \u2013 which, as Justice Richard B. Sanders\u2019 three-member dissent pointed out, \u201cturns the First Amendment on its head\u201d \u2013 open the door for activist court rulings to undermine America\u2019s 22 state Right to Work laws, which make union affiliation and dues payment strictly voluntary. <\/p>\n<p>Foundation attorneys \u2013 working jointly with Steven O\u2019Ban of Ellis, Li, and McKinstry of Seattle \u2013 originally filed the suit, *Davenport v. WEA*, in 2001 for more than 4,000 Washington teachers who are not union members, but nonetheless are forced to pay union dues or be fired.  <\/p>\n<p>A long-awaited ruling in Davenport by the State Supreme Court in mid-March upheld an appellate court\u2019s decision to overturn a trial court \u2013 thereby striking down the last remaining union dues provisions in I-134, Washington\u2019s troubled \u201cpaycheck protection\u201d law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese ineffective \u2018paycheck protection\u2019 laws have unfortunately opened a Pandora\u2019s Box, creating an opportunity for activist courts to award new privileges to union bosses and even to jeopardize state Right to Work laws,\u201d said Stefan Gleason, vice president of the National Right to Work Foundation.  \u201cWhile the underlying law is deeply flawed, the National Right to Work Foundation has a duty to limit the broader collateral damage done to employees\u2019 rights by the court response.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Though the Foundation believes the State Supreme Court\u2019s decision was wrongheaded, the ruling brought into focus how difficult the paycheck protection regulatory approach is, and how ineffective it has been in protecting employees laboring under forced unionism.  Even if Washington\u2019s Supreme Court had reinstated the trial court\u2019s rulings, I-134 would still only result in small individual refunds of $25 per year, on average.  This is because the vast majority of union political expenditures are out of reach of the campaign finance regulation.  <\/p>\n<p> \u201cUltimately, Right to Work laws are the way to protect workers from the misuse of their funds.  By making membership and the payment of dues entirely voluntary, Right to Work laws allow employees to prevent the theft in the first place,\u201d stated Gleason.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"briefs\">Key Legal Documents:<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/pdfs\/Davenport\/Davenport_Cert_Petition_061306.pdf\">Foundation&#8217;s Cert Petition (<i>Davenport v. WEA<\/i>)<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/pdfs\/Davenport\/Davenport%20US%20SCt%20Reply%20Brief.pdf\">Foundation&#8217;s Reply Brief (<i>Davenport v. WEA<\/i>)<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/pdfs\/Davenport\/Davenport%20v%20WEA%20Cert%20Pet%20Appendix%20Final.pdf\"><i>Davenport v. WEA<\/i> Cert Petition Appendix<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourtus.gov\/orders\/courtorders\/092606pzr.pdf\">Supreme Court Order Granting Cert<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/pdfs\/Davenport\/WA%20State's%20Cert%20Petition.pdf\">Washington  State Cert Petition (<i>Washington v. WEA<\/i>)<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/pdfs\/Davenport\/WA%20State's%20Reply%20Brief%2008-25-06.pdf\">Washington  State Reply Brief (<i>Washington v. WEA<\/i>)<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/pdfs\/Davenport\/WA%20v%20WEA%20Cert%20Pet%20Appendix.pdf\"><i>Washington v. WEA<\/i> Cert Petition Appendix<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/pdfs\/Davenport\/WEA_opposition_brief.pdf\">WEA Brief Opposing Cert<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/pdfs\/Davenport\/Amicus%20Brief%20of%2013%20Public%20Policy%20Organizations%20(In%20support%20of%20cert).pdf\">Amicus Brief by 13 Public Policy Groups Supporting Cert<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/pdfs\/Davenport\/IJ_Amicus_Brief.pdf\">Amicus Brief by Institute for Justice Supporting Cert<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/pdfs\/Davenport\/Amicus_PacificLegalFnd.pdf\">Amicus Brief by Pacific Legal Foundation Supporting Cert<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/pdfs\/Davenport\/CLC_Amicus.pdf\">Amicus Brief by Campaign Legal Center Supporting Cert<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?court=wa&#038;vol=2006_sc\/742685MAJ&#038;invol=4\">WA State Supreme Court Decision (Majority)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/caselaw.lp.findlaw.com\/scripts\/getcase.pl?court=wa&#038;vol=2006_sc\/742685DI1&#038;invol=4\">WA State Supreme Court Decision (Dissent)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**Washington, DC (September 26, 2006)** \u2014 A group of teachers receiving free legal help from the National Right to Work Foundation today persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case in which Washington State\u2019s high court struck down a state law intending to limit the misuse of mandatory union dues for certain political activities. 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