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Speaker 1: org and today Bloomberg Lahos. Jon Grasso discusses the Supreme

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Speaker 1: Court's decision to re hear a case about mandatory union

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Speaker 1: fees after the High Court deadlocked on the same case

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Speaker 1: in sixteen. She speaks with Steve Sanders, a professor at

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Speaker 1: the University of Indiana Marrow School of Law. Steve described

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Speaker 1: the basic issue here, Urgeon. The basic issue is if

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Speaker 1: you belong to a union. Of course, um, you pay dues,

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Speaker 1: and it's understood that your membership fees not only defray

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Speaker 1: the cost of the union representing you and negotiating on

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Speaker 1: your behalf, but sometimes unions also engage in political activities

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Speaker 1: and take political stances. Um, what's an issue here are

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Speaker 1: the fee is paid by non members of unions who

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Speaker 1: are still nonetheless represented by the union in their workplace.

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Speaker 1: And these are we're talking here about government employees, public

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Speaker 1: sector employees, not in this case, private employees. UM. The

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court set in nineteen seventy seven that people in

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Speaker 1: that position, non members of a union who are still

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Speaker 1: represented by the union, cannot be compelled to pay for

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Speaker 1: any political activities the union engages in, like endorsing a

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Speaker 1: candidate or taking a position on abortion rights or same

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Speaker 1: sex marriage, but they can be required to pay a

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Speaker 1: fee to defray their fair share of the costs of

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Speaker 1: the union directly representing them and bargaining on their behalf.

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Speaker 1: The argument is if people could opt out of that um,

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Speaker 1: no one would actually want to pay the fee, and

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Speaker 1: the union would go bankrupt. It's a sort of collective

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Speaker 1: action problem or a free rider problem. The laws of

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Speaker 1: here was originally filed by Illinois Republican Governor Bruce Rowner,

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Speaker 1: So in March, the conservative wing of the Court did

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Speaker 1: not have a fifth vote because Justice antonin Scalia had

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Speaker 1: passed away. Are they practically guaranteed that fifth vote from

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Speaker 1: justice schools, which I think most people would expect that.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything in Justice Gores, such as jurisprudence,

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Speaker 1: for the Court's conservatives on this point, as Justice Scalia

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Speaker 1: would have been was expected to be in this case.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes originalism, which is the philosophy Justice Gore such subscribes

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Speaker 1: to le can lead you to different results. But I

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Speaker 1: think everyone assumes that Gore, such as Justice Corsages vote

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Speaker 1: will be gotten here. That the Roberts Court is a

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Speaker 1: very strong First Amendment court anyway. Uh, and so in

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Speaker 1: some sense of ruling against the union and in favor

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Speaker 1: of the worker would be consistent with that that. Steve Sanders,

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Speaker 1: a professor at the University of Indiana mar School of Law,

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