A few times a year Jon Keller likes to check in what is going on with the labor movement.
A recent case (Janus v. AFSCME) that went before the Supreme Court was an argument an Illinois public employee made against his local labor union. He said he should not have to pay his “fair-share fee” because it contributed to political activity he did not support.
President of Massachusett’s AFL-CIO Steve Tolman said that the case was brought about “initially by a hedge-fund governor, the governor of California. And then it was moved around. It’s really funded by the billionaires and millionaires in the right wing, trying to destroy organized labor in this country.