Trump anti union: https://www.epi.org/publication/the-trump-administrations-attacks-on-workplace-union-voting-rights-forewarned-of-the-broader-threats-to-voting-rights-in-the-upcoming-election/
Janus vs. AFSCME https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_v._AFSCME#External_links Supreme Court decision under Trump
Here’s an exerpt from the Janus Wiki article: To clarify, Gorsuch was appointed by Trump.
Janus claimed that he should not need to pay fees to AFSCME because doing so constitutes paying for political speech with which Janus disagrees.[5] Under Illinois law, state government can require its employees to pay fees to a government union as a condition of employment. In March 2015, the three government employees represented by attorneys from the Illinois-based Liberty Justice Center and Virginia-based National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation took legal action to intervene in the case.[6][7][8] In May 2015, after Rauner was dropped from the case, it proceeded under the name Janus v. AFSCME.[9]
Meanwhile, the case of Friedrichs v. California Teachers Ass’n, No. 14–915, 578 U.S. ___ (2016), had been working its way to the Supreme Court, which dealt with a similar complaint. In July 2015, after Friedrichs had been issued certiorari by the Supreme Court, the Illinois suit was put on hold pending Friedrichs. The Supreme Court heard the case, which challenged the Ninth’s Circuit’s decision affirming Abood. Before the Court could issue the decision, however, Justice Antonin Scalia died in February 2016, and the case was decided 4–4, leaving in place the Ninth Circuit decision.[1] Observers believed that the Court would have likely ruled against agency fees based on the progression of the case.[10]
With no decision from Friedrichs, the Illinois cases were restarted. A new complaint was filed by Janus and other plaintiffs, alleging that the fees they paid under an agency-shop agreement violated their First Amendment rights. The unions sought to dismiss the case, arguing that Abood was settled law. The District Court dismissed the case.[11] On appeal in May 2017, the Seventh Circuit affirmed the District Court’s ruling to dismiss the case on the basis of Abood. (16–3638).[12][13]
Supreme Court
On April 10, 2017, Neil Gorsuch was appointed to succeed the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Justice Gorsuch was widely expected to side with conservative bloc, who ruled against the unions in Friedrichs.[14] Observers believed that based on the past deliberations, the decisions in Harris and Friedrichs, and Gorsuch’s conservative jurisprudence, Janus would likely prevail before the Supreme Court.[10] Janus petitioned for a writ of certiorari from the Supreme Court, which was granted on September 28, 2017. The Supreme Court heard the oral argument of the parties on February 26, 2018.
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