Our country’s success depends on the right of all workers to collectively negotiate fair wages, benefits and protections.
Today's ruling in Janus vs. AFSCME undermines the basic premise, held up by courts for over 4 decades, that if a union represents all employees in negotiating & administering a collective bargaining agreement, then all employees ought to share the costs of that representation.
We cannot ignore that this decision is part of an ongoing trend of the Roberts Court that has repeatedly sided with employers over employees, corporations over consumers, and special interests over vulnerable Americans.
Congress must act to bolster the American labor movement that built the middle class of this country. It is up to all of us to fight to protect the ability of working families to make a living wage and pursue the American dream now more than ever.
