A federal appeals court found state employee unions acted in good faith when they collected membership dues prior to a U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that limited collection in certain instances.  

Monday’s pair of opinions from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eight Circuit both involved public employees seeking to claw back so-called “fair-share” fees, which a union may collect despite the employee not being a member. The U.S. Supreme Court sided with non-union members who had First Amendment complaints about fair-share fees in 2018, and efforts to apply that standard retroactively have followed in its wake. 

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