With Potential Supreme Court Ruling Pending, Unions Look to Shore Up Membership

By Rick Karlin

Albany - The 2018 elections are still more than a year away, but some of New York’s major public employee unions are starting to mobilize – not so much for political candidates, but for their own members.

Rather than setting up the familiar get-out-the-vote operations such as phone banks and door-to-door campaigns, leaders of unions like the Civil Service Employees Association and the Public Employees Federation are working to educate their rank-and-file about the benefits of being in a union, even if it means a weekly paycheck deduction.

That’s because labor experts believe the U.S. Supreme Court, after failing to do so in 2016, may render a decision next year that would ban “agency fees” or the practice in which union members are compelled to pay union dues whether they want to or not.

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Source: timesunion.com (via The Empire Report)