White House urges Supreme Court to rule against forcing employees to pay public unions

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The Trump administration urged the Supreme Court yesterday to rule against public sector unions in a case involving whether government employees can be forced to financially support labor groups.

In a friend of the court brief for the case Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the White House argued that the practice violated individual union members' First Amendment rights and should be abolished.

The case asks whether Mark Janus, an Illinois state government employee, can be forced to regularly pay a "security fee" to his workplace's union as a condition of employment. The outcome is of major significance to the labor movement, about half of which — an estimated seven million people — works in a public sector job. Undermining the precedent the allows unions to demand regular payment from those workers could be a crippling financial blow.

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