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Would be a train on-- drain on staff and i'm currently at the bargaining table with our university. if you don't think that the employers think about who are members of the union and who are not, you'd be fooling yourself. that they really-- >> the people on the other side would say they use it to divide and conquer. >> i don't see this case as being about mark janus or rebecca fredericks or free speech. this has been a well-funded campaign by billionaires and corporate interest to undermine the last vestages-- >> and a guy who was-- >> and this wasn't funded by corporate interest. neil: he di...

You will, just like whether you're a car manufacturer or, you know, a dishwasher manufacturer or any other product that's out there. they're going to have to convey to the membership that they have a product that people are going to want to participate and voluntarily join. and let's be clear. this is something that is not going to affect the collective bargaining from the point they still can. they'll still have their federal membership and when you look on the federal side. the federal side don't have to pay the agency fees and the federal unions are doing very well and they're very comprehe...

>> all right, the other side of that court case that mark janus helped win and former communications member of america, carla, it's been some years since we chatted. >> good to see you. neil: you don't like the supreme court decision? >> no, no, this decision was not only wrong, i don't think it was about free speech. it was about a political attack on workers' freedom to join unions. neil: are not join. >> and on workers generally. i mean, this is a weird situation now where unions are the only private organization in the country that by law have to represent people that are not paying for th...

Court signaled in years past that it was ready to correct that and that it finally took that step yesterday. steve: mark, this wasn't a political decision for you. it's really about your first amendment rights, right? >> oh, absolutely. you know, the first amendment is a contract with the people of the united states. and it says that i have the right of freedom of association. and, unfortunately, with these agency fees and the way it was set up in illinois and also many other states, there is 22 across the country, you know, we don't have that right. we are forced into this whether we want to ...

If people want to voluntarily join a union and they want to voluntarily pay the dues, i think it's good for that individual and that union, why should i, as a condition of employment be forced to pay a fee in order to just work in a public sector area? steve: yeah, mark, that's the way they have been doing it for decades. >> it doesn't nestle mean it's right. steve: you are right about that. jacob, what about this particular case do you think appealed to the supreme court with the 5-4 verdict that they would say, you know what? we shouldn't have to force people to do something they don't want ...