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The John Locke Foundation in Raleigh and 12 public policy organizations have filed a friend of the court brief in a University of Maine professor's case that challenges that state's bargaining laws.
Professor Jonathon Reisman is the plaintiff in Reisman v. Associated Faculties at the University of Maine. The John Locke Foundation and others are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case.
In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Janus v. American Federation of State, County, And Municipal Employees, Council 31, et al. that requiring someone to join a union is compelled speech and goes against the First Amendment.
“The John Locke Foundation believes any organization – including a labor union – should earn support through people’s free choices, not through government-sanctioned forced representation,” John Locke Foundation CEO Amy O. Cooke in a press release.
Cooke said the support of labor unions should come from the free choice of the person and should not be a matter of forced representation.
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