https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/as-supreme-court-positions-harden-on-union-case-likely-deciding-justice-is-silent/2018/02/26/4c5f2456-1b2a-11e8-b2d9-08e748f892c0_story.html?utm_term=.1bff2c1c656b
A new supreme court case is ramping up to take away a lot of power and political viability from unions. The case, which is over whether or not unions should require union members to pay fees, thus agreeing to political views, in order to join.
Many of the conservative judges have fought hard to say that this practice is unconstitutional, but there has also been a lot of arguing over whether unions should exist at all. The simple fact is, that if they win this case, the unions will have less political power. And, with a majority republican court, that's fairly likely to happen.
This reminds me of the series of supreme court cases in the 1920s that rolled back many of the progressive era union privileges.
It is sad that people are trying to limit the powers of such useful organizations. It goes against the right to peaceful assembly. Hope to doesn't get passed.
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