{"id":440,"date":"2009-01-21T12:33:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T12:33:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:14:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:14:43","slug":"u-s-supreme-court-misses-opportunity-to-expand-protections-for-employees-forced-to-pay-union-dues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/u-s-supreme-court-misses-opportunity-to-expand-protections-for-employees-forced-to-pay-union-dues\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Supreme Court Misses Opportunity to Expand Protections for Employees Forced to Pay Union Dues"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Today\u2019s ruling highlights the need for Right to Work laws, which end forced unionism<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t<b>Washington, DC (January 21, 2009)<\/b> &#8212; Today, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Maine state employees can be compelled under penalty of losing their jobs to pay into an international union\u2019s litigation slush fund \u2013 even where all the litigation expenditures are made outside of their own bargaining<br \/>\n\tunit.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn doing so, the High Court affirmed a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirming a loose standard of protection under the U.S. Constitution for employees forced to pay dues as a condition of employment.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cAmerica\u2019s workers were not well served by this ruling. The U.S. Supreme Court missed an obvious opportunity to apply explicitly the same \u2018strict scrutiny\u2019 standard that applies under the First Amendment to other content-based government restrictions on free speech,\u201d said Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Foundation, which provided free legal aid to the employees asserting their rights.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nRead the rest of the Foundation&#8217;s press release <a href=\"\/en\/press\/2009\/01\/u-s-supreme-court-misses-opportunity\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Today\u2019s ruling highlights the need for Right to Work laws, which end forced unionism<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t<b>Washington, DC (January 21, 2009)<\/b> &#8212; Today, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Maine state employees can be compelled under penalty of losing their jobs to pay into an international union\u2019s litigation slush fund \u2013 even where all the litigation expenditures are made outside of their own bargaining<br \/>\n\tunit.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn doing so, the High Court affirmed a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirming a loose standard of protection under the U.S. Constitution for employees forced to pay dues as a condition of employment.\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889,888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U.S. Supreme Court Misses Opportunity to Expand Protections for Employees Forced to Pay Union Dues - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/news\/u-s-supreme-court-misses-opportunity-to-expand-protections-for-employees-forced-to-pay-union-dues\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"U.S. Supreme Court Misses Opportunity to Expand Protections for Employees Forced to Pay Union Dues - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Today\u2019s ruling highlights the need for Right to Work laws, which end forced unionism   Washington, DC (January 21, 2009) -- Today, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Maine state employees can be compelled under penalty of losing their jobs to pay into an international union\u2019s litigation slush fund \u2013 even where all the litigation expenditures are made outside of their own bargaining  unit.     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