February 20, 2008
Supreme Court to hear ME union case
The United States Supreme Court yesterday agreed to hear a dispute over whether dues from nonunion Maine state workers can be used by the union to help finance out-of-state court battles.
Twenty nonunion state workers that are forced to pay dues to the Maine State Employees Union, a local of the Service Employees International Union, claim those dues are meant to cover collective bargaining and not to subsidize lawsuits outside out of Maine, according to a press release from the National Right to Work Foundation in Springfield, Va., which is representing the workers.
Tim Belcher, executive director of the Maine State Employees Union, told the Associated Press he is confident legal precedent is on the union's side. The National Right to Work Foundation countered in the press release that Maine has "no legal authority to make non-union public servants in Maine pay for union activity across America."
Twenty nonunion state workers that are forced to pay dues to the Maine State Employees Union, a local of the Service Employees International Union, claim those dues are meant to cover collective bargaining and not to subsidize lawsuits outside out of Maine, according to a press release from the National Right to Work Foundation in Springfield, Va., which is representing the workers.
Tim Belcher, executive director of the Maine State Employees Union, told the Associated Press he is confident legal precedent is on the union's side. The National Right to Work Foundation countered in the press release that Maine has "no legal authority to make non-union public servants in Maine pay for union activity across America."
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