Union Stops Withdrawing Dues to Settle First Amendment Lawsuit

A union agreed to let a Minnesota police clerk stop paying dues to settle a lawsuit challenging its restrictions on when the worker could revoke her authorization to have dues deducted from her paychecks, a conservative advocacy group announced Jan. 14.

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation sued an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local on behalf of Sandra Anderson, claiming that the union violated her First Amendment rights by continuing to collect dues after she’d resigned from the union. The lawsuit relied on the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2018 ruling in Janus v. AFSCME that public sector ...