U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Appeal of Anti-Union Organizations Challenging the Right of Public
On September 28, 2017, the United States Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31, 851 F.3d 746 (7th Cir. 2017), which threatens to upend 40 years of history allowing public employee unions to require non-members to pay agency fees. This appeal is a key part of the efforts of a number of anti-union organizations to eviscerate the strength of public sector unions and their members. In 1977, the Supreme Court of the United States held that it is constitutional for public sector unions to charge non-members agency fees. More specifically, in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, 431 U.S. 209 (1977), the Supreme Court upheld, against a challenge based on the First Ame
