Last summer, the US Supreme court ruled that public employee’s basically can’t be forced to pay any union dues. Now employee’s are finding out that they have to wait until a certain time before they can leave the union. As soon as the ruling came out, they should have had the option of bailing then, but untion rules won’t let them.
So now seem’s they are suing to get dues back not only from the ruling last summer (at least the california school district realized that was a lost cause and refunded the money), but trying to get their dues back from when they started employment.
At first, they didn’t respond to his requests. Then, when he pursued litigation, the union agreed to tell the school district to stop collecting dues from him and reimbursed him for all the dues paid post-Janus.
But Few is now seeking reimbursement for dues paid since he became a teacher.
And this teacher isn’t the only one:
Six teachers in Northern California’s Freemont Unified School District filed suit in March against the CTA and Becerra amid claims that they were never informed that they were no longer required to have $1,500 in annual union dues deducted from their pay.
These one’s saying there were never told of the court ruling to be given an option to end.
And a class action lawsuit:
And last week, a class-action lawsuit filed on the behalf of nine government worker plaintiffs and a class of more than 2,700 workers seeks to force unions to refund hundreds of millions of dollars in agency fees paid by thousands of workers nationwide prior to the Janus ruling.
“We’re putting the band back together,” Liberty Justice Center President Patrick Hughes told Fox News. “The argument is once something is deemed to be unconstitutional [in the civil context] – agency fees – then they’re deemed to be retroactively unconstitutional. … We’re taking the position that those fees should be refunded to those nonmembers.”
Maybe @Safiel can chime in here . . . . I think every one will get their dues back post Janus ruling. But I don’t think they will get refunds from hire date (they should if they can prove they woudn’t have joined the union if not required to).
Now this ruling just needs to be applied to general Union memberships