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Americans for Fair Treatment exists to support public sector employees who are being bullied or harassed by their union. (Photo: Shironosov/Getty Images) Public employees across America are growing weary of unions that do not represent their interests, says Elisabeth Kines, the national executive director of Americans for Fair Treatment.  Kines helps public sector employees, such as teachers, to understand their First Amendment rights and to stand up to union pressure. She says conservatives used to be the only ones reaching out for help. Now, she receives lots of calls from politically lib...

RI EDUCATION Providence superintendent: ‘We’ve paid more than $400,000 in union dues for people that don’t exist’ The city school department is refusing to pay any more, but the president of the teachers union argues that the district is attempting to “exert authority they don’t have.” By Dan McGowan Globe Staff,Updated April 1, 2021, 7:52 p.m. Email to a Friend R.I. Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green, left, and Providence Public Schools Superintendent Harrison Peters after the first day of school for prekindergarten, kindergarten, and first-gr...

Repair the Crumbling Infrastructure of the American Labor Movement Biden’s plan would allocate billions to transportation and manufacturing. But will it also do what’s necessary to build back the country’s unions? Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images A former public affairs aide for the AFL-CIO once told me he spent most of his day fielding queries from conservatives. Most liberals outside the Rust Belt lost interest in organized labor decades ago; only now are they starting, tentatively, to think again about unions’ role in creating the sort of society they want. Conservatives, by contrast,...

Supreme Court shows a little impartiality By Bill Knight The U.S. Supreme Court last week cleared the way for a New York prosecutor to get former Donald Trump's tax returns, essentially ending the ex-President’s years-long fight to keep his financial records secret. Issued without comment (much less a dissent) the ruling received considerable attention. However, exactly four weeks before, there was much less notice when the Justices foreshadowed such impartiality, if not independence, by rejecting a case that sought to require the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees...

The foundation, which represents Melissa Belgau and six other state employees in Belgau v. Inslee, filed a request for certiorari after a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit ruled against them in September. The Washington workers are not alone. Public employees in at least 11 states have challenged post-Janus restrictions on exiting unions, but the foundation’s case, Belgau v. Inslee, marks the first to reach the Supreme Court since the 2018 decision in Janus v. American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). The court ruled in favor of ...