AG Paxton Commends SCOTUS Ruling: Non-Union Workers Cannot Be Forced to  Subsidize Union Speech to Keep Their Job

AG Paxton Commends SCOTUS Ruling: Non-Union Workers Cannot Be Forced to  Subsidize Union Speech to Keep Their Job

Ken Paxton

  AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton today released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, that non-union workers cannot be forced to pay fees to public-sector unions:   “It’s been a common refrain of mine for years: compelled political speech through compulsory union dues is incompatible with this nation’s bedrock principles of individual liberty. Accepting a job in the public sector should not require employees to check their First Amendment rights […]