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Sara Gjerdrum, Executive Director Christina Clark, General Counsel
March 2015
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» PELRA 1971 » Public sector collective bargaining » Employees vote to select exclusive representative » Opt-in union membership » 85% fair share fee allowance » Payroll deduction for dues and fair share fees
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US Cool » First Amendment Permits
Public Sector “Agency Shop” » Permissible to Require
Employees to Share Costs of Collective Representation
» But Cannot Require Employees to Share in Political Contributions or Political Expression Unrelated to Collective Representation
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1977 --NYC blackout --World Trade Center completed --Panama Canal returned to Panama --Apple II computers --President Carter grants pardon to Vietnam War “draft dodgers” --Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Amnesty International --Vikings lose to Oakland in Super Bowl (32-14) --The last execution by guillotine in France --Minnesotan Dorothy Benham is Miss America --Elvis Presley dies at age 42 --Star Wars, Roots, and Saturday Night Fever --Christina starts college
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Knox (2012)
Harris (2014)
Friedrichs? (2016)
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Knox (2012)
Is a new notice and opt-out required for mid-year dues
increase?
Court invites an Abood challenge: “Our prior decisions approach, if
they do not cross the limit of what the First Amendment can
tolerate.”
Harris (2014)
May a state require home aides to pay a representation fee to the union they
selected to represent them?
No – Abood doesn’t extend to such “quasi- public employees” – but then goes out of its way to call
Abood an “anomaly,” “questionable analysis,” “questionable
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» Knox (SCt-2012), fueled Harris (SCt-2010) & spawned Friedrichs (SCt petition pending 2015) as well as other challenges: ˃ to opt-opt procedures (Lum) (CA) (2014); ˃ to agency fee and resignation and objection
process (Kennedy) (CA)(2014) ˃ to exclusive representation (Beckhart) (KY)
(2013)
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» Harris (SCt-2014) Spawned More Challenges and Fueled Others
˃ To Exclusive Representation & Fees for Home Aides/Childcare Workers: Bierman (MN, 8th Cir. 2014), D’Agostino (MA 2014), Jarvis (NY 2014), Schlaud (MI, 6th Cir. 2010) (6th), Centeno (WA 2014), Greene (MN 2014))
˃ To Membership Drop Periods: (Pulaski, Arkansas & Michigan ULPs)
˃ To agency fee generally: Juber (CT 2014), Rauner (IL 2014), Hamidi (CA 2014), Mass Labor Charges (2014))
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» Friedrichs (certiorari petition pending in SCt):
˃ In lower courts, challenged California’s opt-out system as unconstitutional
˃ Minnesota has opt-in, was considered to be “safe”)
˃ But Supreme Court petition now seeks to overturn Abood entirely
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Agency Fee
Right to Work/Shirk
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Bargaining
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So What Does This Mean? • Immediate loss of all fee-payers who have not
converted to membership • Loss of unengaged members who do not see value of
union membership
• Membership loss will be greater if loss of fair share combined with loss of payroll deduction and attacks on collective bargaining 12
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No Agency Fee? Opportunities… It’s Up To Us
Opportunities
• Run issue based campaigns that engage members and fee payers
• Win on issue based campaigns demonstrating union difference
• Enhance and test worksite structures • Engage members and move them to activist to leader • Educate members around union difference • Build POWER • Move to true organizing culture
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The Value of Belonging
¡Sí, Se Puede! 14