Supreme Court delivers bruise to unions, not a KO
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In the case Harris v. Quinn, the court's five conservative justices ruled that home-care workers in Illinoissuch as the lead plaintiff, Pam Harriscannot be forced to pay dues to a union if they're not union members because they are not full-fledged public employees like cops, firefighters, and teachers.
But there's good news for organized labor: The court did not deliver the killer blow to public-employee unions as some warned it might. The court declined to overturn the 1977 decision in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, the opinion that upheld the model of public-employee unionism. Had the court tossed out Abood, it would've essentially made right-to-workone of the conservative movement's favorite anti-union policiesthe law of the land and dramatically damaged the ability of unions such as SEIU, AFSCME, and others that represent public workers to collect dues and engage in political and issue advocacy.
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