Michael Swartz: Big Win: Court Says Public Sector Employees Have Right to Work, Too

Michael Swartz: Big Win: Court Says Public Sector Employees Have Right to Work, Too — The Patriot Post:
"When Michigan shocked the nation and passed its right-to-work law three years ago, there was no question that Big Labor wouldn’t take it lying down.
The tentacles of Big Labor run deep in the state, not only in the obvious automotive-related businesses but also in the state employees organized under the United Auto Workers (UAW) banner.
It was on behalf of those workers, who fall under the auspices of the state’s Civil Service Commission, that the UAW filed suit to maintain its hold on the agency fees it has routinely extracted from these workers.
But the move backfired.
The Michigan Supreme Court upheld the 2012 right-to-work law even for public-sector employees. 
The 4-3 decision fell mainly along party lines — five of the seven members of the court are Republicans, and the two Democrats were among the dissenting trio.
...About 36,000 workers are affected by the decision, along with millions of dollars that will stay in the workers' wallets rather than fattening the coffers of Big Labor.
If the trend from other states adopting similar right-to-work provisions holds true, as many as 20,000 of those workers could walk away from the union."