Teacher Unions Across America Face Uncertain Future After Supreme Court Decision

[Free Vulcan]

Teacher unions across the country face an uncertain future after the Supreme Court’s decision not to force workers to pay mandatory fees to cover union collecting bargaining costs.

The Janus v. AFSCME 31 case dealt with Mark Janus, an Illinois state worker, arguing that the state violated his First Amendment rights by making him pay agency fees to a union because he did not want to join it. Janus believed paying agency fees forced him to speak through the union.

“This is a fundamental defeat for unions. There’s no sugar-coating it; this is a huge defeat,” Nat Malkus, deputy director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, told The Daily Caller.

http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/02/teacher-unions-uncertain-future/

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Is it wrong that I read this with a big smile on my face?

[Bigun]

My heart bleeds for them!  NOT!

[Oceander]

The simple solution, of course, is to simply negotiate in more direct payments for these expenses as part of the overall contract between the union and the agency.  Money is fungible, after all.

[WingNot]

May it weaken the teachers union till they fold. 

[bilo]

This ruling did not come as a shock to Malkus; however, the Court including a First Amendment argument requiring unions to get consent before receiving any fees from members surprised him.

“Requiring members to get positive consent to get any fees from members … makes it much harder for unions to retain membership and gain new members,” Malkus said.

Wisconsin led on this and union membership collapsed. Why give money to a union that subsidizes politicians who don't represent you and why give money to a union when your compensation is already more than fair.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

Thomas Jefferson

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Because they've been so good for education right?

[Hoodat]

“This is a fundamental defeat for unions. There’s no sugar-coating it; this is a huge defeat  .  .  .

.  .  .  for the Democrat Party.

[Applewood]

May it weaken the teachers union till they fold.

May it destroy all unions.  They may have had a good purpose at one time (and even that  is doubtful), but now they are not only useless to the people they claim to represent, but they are harmful to them and to America. 

[jmyrlefuller]

Don't get your hopes up.

Public school teachers are indoctrinated in college, maybe even brainwashed, into leftist and pro-Union ideology. They will stay loyal.

[txradioguy]

Don't get your hopes up.

Public school teachers are indoctrinated in college, maybe even brainwashed, into leftist and pro-Union ideology. They will stay loyal.

The bumper sticker I saw for the Kentucky Education Association...their union here in the Commonwealth and the slogan on it had nothing about education it was "Uniting, Organizing, Empowering"

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Don't get your hopes up.

Public school teachers are indoctrinated in college, maybe even brainwashed, into leftist and pro-Union ideology. They will stay loyal.

There are a fair number who aren't leftists, and they'll start withdrawing quickly.  It happened in Wisconsin, which saw a nearly 40% drop in union membership after the passage of Governor Walker's bill.  It tends to have a ripple effect -- as members leave and the union loses revenue, it's profile/power drops, so even more end up leaving.

[Hoodat]

There are a fair number who aren't leftists, and they'll start withdrawing quickly.  It happened in Wisconsin, which saw a nearly 40% drop in union membership after the passage of Governor Walker's bill.  It tends to have a ripple effect -- as members leave and the union loses revenue, it's profile/power drops, so even more end up leaving.

Even self-declared communists operate for their own self-interest.