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Sara Gjerdrum, Executive Director Christina Clark, General Counsel March 2015

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» PELRA 1971 » Public sector collective bargaining » Employees vote to select exclusive representative » Opt-in union membership » 85% fair share fee allowance » Payroll deduction for dues and fair share fees

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US Cool » First Amendment Permits Public Sector “Agency Shop” » Permissible to Require Employees to Share Costs of Collective Representation » But Cannot Require Employees to Share in Political Contributions or Political Expression Unrelated to Collective Representation

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1977

• -NYC blackout
• -World Trade Center completed
• -Panama Canal returned to Panama
• -Apple II computers
• -President Carter grants pardon to Vietnam War “draft dodgers”
• -Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Amnesty International
• -Vikings lose to Oakland in Super Bowl (32-14)
• -The last execution by guillotine in France
• -Minnesotan Dorothy Benham is Miss America
• -Elvis Presley dies at age 42
• -Star Wars, Roots, and Saturday Night Fever
• -Christina starts college

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Knox (2012) Harris (2014) Friedrichs? (2016)

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Knox (2012)

Is a new notice and opt-out required for mid-year dues increase?

Court invites an Abood challenge: “Our prior decisions approach, if they do not cross the limit of what the First Amendment can tolerate.”

Harris (2014)

May a state require home aides to pay a representation fee to the union they selected to represent them? No – Abood doesn’t extend to such “quasi- public employees” – but then goes out of its way to call Abood an “anomaly,” “questionable analysis,” “questionable foundations,” “unsupported”

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» Knox (SCt-2012), fueled Harris (SCt-2010) & spawned Friedrichs (SCt petition pending 2015) as well as other challenges: ˃ to opt-opt procedures (Lum) (CA) (2014); ˃ to agency fee and resignation and objection process (Kennedy) (CA)(2014) ˃ to exclusive representation (Beckhart) (KY) (2013)

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» Harris (SCt-2014) Spawned More Challenges and Fueled Others

˃ To Exclusive Representation & Fees for Home Aides/Childcare Workers: Bierman (MN, 8th Cir. 2014), D’Agostino (MA 2014), Jarvis (NY 2014), Schlaud (MI, 6th Cir. 2010) (6th), Centeno (WA 2014), Greene (MN 2014)) ˃ To Membership Drop Periods: (Pulaski, Arkansas & Michigan ULPs) ˃ To agency fee generally: Juber (CT 2014), Rauner (IL 2014), Hamidi (CA 2014), Mass Labor Charges (2014))

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» Friedrichs (certiorari petition pending in SCt): ˃ In lower courts, challenged California’s opt-out system as unconstitutional ˃ Minnesota has opt-in, was considered to be “safe”) ˃ But Supreme Court petition now seeks to overturn Abood entirely

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Agency Fee Right to Work/Shirk 10

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Bargaining Bargaining Prohibited

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So What Does This Mean?

• Immediate loss of all fee-payers who have not

converted to membership

• Loss of unengaged members who do not see value of

union membership

• Membership loss will be greater if loss of fair share

combined with loss of payroll deduction and attacks on collective bargaining

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No Agency Fee?

Opportunities… It’s Up To Us

Opportunities

• Run issue based campaigns that engage members and fee

payers

• Win on issue based campaigns demonstrating union

difference

• Enhance and test worksite structures
• Engage members and move them to activist to leader
• Educate members around union difference
• Build POWER
• Move to true organizing culture

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The Value of Belonging

¡Sí, Se Puede!

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