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After Janus, a battle for union members' wallets

by Mitchell Hartman
Sep 13, 2018
Public-sector unions can't collect fees from nonunion members anymore. Now anti-union groups are campaigning to get union members to quit.
Members of the Service Employees International Union hold a rally in support of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees at the Richard J. Daley Center on Feb. 26 in Chicago.
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The pro-business U.S. supreme court could get another pro-business justice

by David Brancaccio and Janet Nguyen
Jul 10, 2018
President Donald Trump has nominated Brett Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge.
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States may need to rewrite contracts and laws in the wake of Supreme Court’s Janus ruling

by Mitchell Hartman
Jun 27, 2018
How might states be affected by overturning the established precedent allowing public-sector unions to collect fees from nonunion members? In places where the so-called agency fees have been allowed, state officials will have to rewrite the law and revise contracts with public-sector unions. Losing those agency fees will be a big financial hit for some […]
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Supreme Court deals big setback to labor unions

by Marketplace Weekend Staff and Associated Press
Jun 27, 2018
The justices are scrapping a decision that had allowed states to require that public employees pay some fees to unions that represent them, even if the workers choose not to join.
Union members held signs during a rally outside of San Francisco City Hall on Feb. 26 in San Francisco, California, as the U.S. Supreme Court began to hear oral arguments in the Janus V. AFSCME case.
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Big tech and other companies decry Supreme Court travel ban ruling

by Kimberly Adams
Jun 26, 2018
Business leaders say President Trump’s travel ban goes against their values and hurts economically.
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Unions brace for Supreme Court Janus decision

by Mitchell Hartman
Jun 25, 2018
Organized labor in Nevada is holding its own, in spite of right-to-work rules that ban charging fees to nonunion members — something the Janus case might lead to for public-sector unions nationwide.
A view of the Supreme Court at dusk in Washington, D.C.
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Special education costs add up for parents, schools as federal law remains underfunded

by Peter Balonon-Rosen
Jun 22, 2018
For the first time, schools are legally required to make special education meaningful. But they've been given no additional money to make it happen.
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Online shoppers have to pay state sales tax, Supreme Court says

by Mitchell Hartman
Jun 21, 2018
States and cities have long been saying that they have a right to profit from residents’ on line purchases.
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Supreme Court rules for states in online sales tax case

by Associated Press
Jun 21, 2018
This could mean higher online prices for consumers.
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The Supreme Court just made class-action lawsuits harder to join

by David Brancaccio and Ali Oshinskie
May 22, 2018
We spoke with one of the co-founders of SCOTUSblog about the implications of the ruling.
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