Fifty-one Democratic members of the Michigan House of Representatives and all 20 Democratic senators are sponsoring companion bills that would repeal a section of law prohibiting public employees from being required to pay union fees.
Also in today’s newsletter: an update on public-sector union lawsuits at the Supreme Court and an update on union membership from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
About the Michigan bills
House Bill 4004 and Senate Bill 0005 were both introduced on Jan. 12 and referred to the respective chambers’ Labor Committees.
Part of the law the bills would repeal currently says, “No person shall by force, intimidation, or unlawful threats compel or attempt to compel any public employee to … [b]ecome or remain a member of a labor organization or bargaining representative or otherwise affiliate with or financially support a labor organization or bargaining representative.”
If enacted, the bills would add, “[T]his act or any other law of this state does not preclude a public employer from making an agreement with an exclusive bargaining representative as described in section 11 to require as a condition of employment that all other employees in the bargaining unit pay to the exclusive bargaining representative a service fee equivalent to the amount of dues uniformly required of members of the exclusive bargaining representative.”
In its 2018 ruling in Janus v. AFSCME, the U.S. Supreme Court held that public-sector unions cannot require non-member employees...
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