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Marianno, Bradley D.; Strunk, Katharine O. – Education Next, 2018
In "Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31", the U.S. Supreme Court ended the practice of enabling public-sector unions to collect "fair-share" or "agency" fees from employees who decline to join. Although federal law prohibits requiring workers to join a union as a…
Descriptors: Unions, Activism, Fees, Union Members
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Daniel, Jamie Owen – Academe, 2011
Like thousands of other people from around the country and around the world, this author was heartened and inspired by the tenacity, immediacy, and creativity of the pushback by Wisconsin's public-sector unions against Governor Scott Walker's efforts to limit their collective bargaining rights. And like many others who made the trek to Madison to…
Descriptors: Democracy, Collective Bargaining, Labor, Unions