Supreme Court Delivers Blow To Unions

The Supreme Court handed down its decision in Harris v. Quinn on Monday

, saying partial public employees can't be required to contribute to unions.

According to SCOTUSblog, the 5-4 ruling is a "substantial obstacle to expanding public employee unions, but it does not gut them." SCOTUSblog also notes the case does not involve "full-fledge public employees," but rather says that union bargaining fees cannot be imposed on employees that are not full public employees.

Justice Samuel Alito wrote the opinion in the ruling.

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