{"id":17829,"date":"2013-04-30T19:47:36","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T23:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17829"},"modified":"2013-04-30T19:47:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T23:47:36","slug":"california-teachers-sue-nea-to-block-forced-union-dues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17829\/california-teachers-sue-nea-to-block-forced-union-dues\/","title":{"rendered":"California Teachers Sue NEA to Block Forced Union Dues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ten California public school teachers are suing both the National Education Association (NEA), and its state affiliate, the California Teachers Association (CTA), to block a mandatory $1,000 annual contribution to the union \u2013 even though none of the teachers are members of the union.<\/p>\n<p>California\u2019s \u201cfair share\u201d and \u201cagency shop\u201d laws allow CTA, the state\u2019s dominant teachers union, to extract involuntary contributions to fund its activities since non-members are deemed to benefit from the union\u2019s collective bargaining agreements, reports <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/california-teachers-sue-nea-over-forced-1000-union-dues\/article\/2528510\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Bedard<\/a> of the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>The teachers\u2019 lawsuit \u201cclaims that NEA and CTA dues fund a Democratic political agenda, not just collective bargaining.\u201d And since the teachers suing don\u2019t agree with that agenda, their coerced dues amount to compelled speech.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, California\u2019s draconian employment tax on non-CTA teachers could be unconstitutional, according to the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s reasoning in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/138770955\/Knox-v-Service-Employees-International-Union \" target=\"_blank\"><em>Knox v. Service Employees International Unio<\/em><\/a>n (2012).<\/p>\n<p>Such a ruling could help weaken the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2012\/22_2_california-teachers-association.html\" target=\"_blank\">CTA\u2019s stranglehold on California politics<\/a>, and stop its pilfering of non-members\u2019 paychecks.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten California public school teachers are suing both the National Education Association (NEA), and its state affiliate, the California Teachers Association (CTA), to block a mandatory $1,000 annual contribution to the union \u2013 even though none of the teachers are members of the union. California\u2019s \u201cfair share\u201d and \u201cagency shop\u201d laws allow CTA, the state\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[299,3550,4121,64,4122,3601,1801,1051],"class_list":["post-17829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-california","tag-cta","tag-dues","tag-education","tag-member","tag-public","tag-teacher","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17833,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17829\/revisions\/17833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}