2,824 Public Employees Helped Opt Out
18,000 Members
$323,875 Saved in Annual Union Dues
New legislation that would require new and non-union public-sector workers are notified of their rights regarding union membership was passed by the Pa. House Labor and Industry Committee, today. The Employee Rights Notification Act (HB 785), which would also repeal state laws that violate the Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court
When Francisco “Cisco” Molina was growing up, boys like him had only two destinations: prison, or the graveyard.
William H. Neely III has got to be frustrated. He’s worked as a psychiatric aide at Wernersville State Hospital in Berks County for 15 years, and belongs to AFSCME, the public-sector union whose “agency fees” for nonmembers were declared unconstitutional in the Supreme Court’s Janus decision.
This week, PennLive.com ran a joint editorial from Mark Janus–the storied plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case Janus v. AFSCME–and Keith Williams, head of Americans for Fair Treatment (and parent organization for Free to Serve).
Yesterday, to kick off National Employee Freedom Week, we rejoiced (again) over the fact that government workers are no longer required to pay for union representation they did not want. Union supporters, however, argue that any employee who doesn’t pay for union representation is a freeloader.
It’s the beginning of National Employee Freedom Week (NEFW), which celebrates the liberties, policies, and laws that give workers a choice on whether or not to join a labor union.
