Some Of Them, Probably Yes
by Bob Walsh
The formerly great state of California has a mandatory unionized civil service. Even if you do NOT choose to be a member the union can compel you to pay a "fair share" fee, which ALLEGEDLY is used solely for representation purposes and not even a tiny bit for supporting political candidates that the individual members may or may not like or support.
SCOTUS just killed this plan dead.
Now this won't be horrible news to ALL public employee unions. the CAHP represents Ca. Highway Patrol Officers. They have a membership of over 98% and do NOT charge a fair share fee to non-members (the last I heard). They will no doubt do just fine. The group I was a member of and an officer of, CCPOA (Ca. Correctional Peace Officer's Association) will PROBABLY do OK. After all they just got a very nice raise for their membership. When I was on the board (a couple of eons ago) there were very few people that wanted to opt out, many of those were for semi-legit religious purposes. (Apparently some religious groups have a faith-based objection to unions.)
Some of the Ca. unions will not be so lucky. SEIU is NOTORIOUS for being run by the paid staff and not by the membership and often have pol9itical support of powerful but unpopular political figures shoved down their throat at the expense of their wallets. That will be happening no more. Less money to bribe politicians with means fewer favors from politicians which means fewer goodies from those politicians.
There are currently 23 states that have mandatory civil service union membership with fair share fees to non-members. All will be kicked in the ass to one extent or other by this ruling.
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