Last week, in a Pennsylvania capitol press conference with Mark Janus, the national nonprofit law firm the Liberty Justice Center (LJC) unveiled a class-action lawsuit aimed at reclaiming fair share fees that state employees in AFSCME Council 13 recently paid.
The latest contracts for Pennsylvania state workers are slowly being made public, and as the Fairness Center noted this week, two additional unions have dropped the narrow 15-day window during which workers could resign.
Newly negotiated contracts with some 78,000 Commonwealth employees and their unions are slowly trickling in. In June, we reported on how a worker lawsuit against SEIU Local 668 prompted the union to drop the contract requirement that members resign only during a 15-day exit window.
Americans for Fair Treatment Director Keith Williams has an encouraging editorial at TribLive.com about the importance of principled courage—even when you’re in the minority.
I have been a state employee for 18 years. Since 2009, I’ve worked at a Berks County state hospital represented by SEIU 668. For that entire time, I and my co-workers have watched our contracts get worse and our union leaders lie and brush off rank-and-file concerns.
Today marks one year since Janus v. AFSCME, when the U.S. Supreme Court struck a victory for government worker rights by banning forced union dues. This month, Americans for Fair Treatment is also looking back on a year of fruitful work since we ramped up our outreach efforts with our Free to Serve project.
A funny thing happens when workers stand up to big and overbearing national unions: they win
In case you missed it early this month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a ruling to protect the subsidies going to disabled Americans in need of round-the-clock home care.
When Francisco “Cisco” Molina was growing up, boys like him had only two destinations: prison, or the graveyard.
