California government workers union could face $100 million damage claim in class action suit after Supreme Court decision

Washington Free Beacon:
One of California's largest labor unions is at the center of a lawsuit that could cost it $100 million in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling overturning forced unionism in the public sector.

In June, the Supreme Court ruled in Janus v. AFSCME that government unions are inherently political and policies forcing workers to pay dues or partial fees to cover collective bargaining violated their First Amendment rights. Government agency workers are looking to recover the money they paid to the California state chapter of Service Employees International Union as a condition of employment. The class action suit, Hamidid v. SEIU Local 1000, could force the union to refund money taken from 40,000 workers dating back to 2012.

The case was filed by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation prior to the Janus decision. The foundation, which also brought the Janus case before the Supreme Court, is now looking to move forward with the suit and recover wages for those workers. They are now asking the justices to move beyond ending future coerced unionism and make labor organizations pay back the money taken from unwilling members.
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Government unions who coerced payments from non-members are going to have a tough and expensive time defending a practice that the court has already rejected.   It is also bad news for Democrats who have benefited from the coerced payment of union dues.

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