Current Events > People flip out after the SCOTUS gives people the right to choose

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No, not the right to choose whether to terminate another human being, but the right to decide if you want to pay fees to a union you don't want to join

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court dealt a major blow on Wednesday to organized labor. By a 5-to-4 vote, with the more conservative justices in the majority, the court ruled that government workers who choose not to join unions may not be required to help pay for collective bargaining.

Forcing those workers to finance union activity violated the First Amendment, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote for the majority. We conclude that this arrangement violates the free speech rights of nonmembers by compelling them to subsidize private speech on matters of substantial public concern, he wrote.

tl;dr: Unions can no longer force workers to pay their fees even when the worker doesn't want to be represented by the union in the first place.

I don't see how this could be so contentious. Imagine any other scenario where a unelected non-government organization can force you to pay them.
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