Justices Won’t Take Up Challenge to Care Worker Union Power

The U.S. Supreme Court won’t consider whether unions can represent government-subsidized home care workers who aren’t union members.

The justices May 13 declined to take up a First Amendment challenge to a Service Employees International Union affiliate’s authority to speak for all Minnesota home care workers paid through a Medicaid program, including nonmembers. A group of workers, represented by the conservative National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, sought review of an appeals court decision dismissing their lawsuit.

Deciding against taking up the case is another signal that the justices aren’t yet willing to extend their line of union-related free ...