United Worker Asks Supreme Court to Review Union Financing Rule

A United Airlines Inc. worker asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his legal challenge to a federal labor-relations law requiring railway and airline workers who are represented by unions, but aren’t members, to opt out of paying full union dues.

Arthur Baisley, represented by the the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, filed a petition May 21 saying the high court should strike down the opt-out system in the Railway Labor Act in light of the high court’s 2018 ruling in Janus v. AFSCME, which forbid public sector unions from requiring nonmembers to pay union fees to ...