Union Opt-Outs Are Next Battleground After Supreme Court Case

Labor groups and some of their toughest critics are still waiting to see whether the U.S. Supreme Court will allow public sector unions to keep charging nonmembers “fair share” fees. They’re also already gearing up for the next debate—over how easy it should be for workers who don’t want to join a union to opt out.

“Across the country, all sorts of schemes are set up to keep dues flowing to unions from workers who have never said they want to pay them,” Patrick Semmens, a spokesman for the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, told Bloomberg Law. “There’s ...