On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association, No. 14-915, 2015 WL 407687, portending possible significant revisions in public sector collective bargaining around the country, not excepting Connecticut. If the court accepts the petitioners’ arguments, public sector unions will face a potential decrease in funding that could diminish their economic and political power.
The Friedrich petitioners have asked the high court to consider two First Amendment issues. The first is whether a nearly 40–year-old precedent, Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, 431 U.S. 209 (1977), that validated public-sector agency shops, should be overruled. In Connecticut and much of the country, the majority of public employee union contracts include agency shop provisions.
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