Law & Liberty
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In post-Janus age, it is just a matter of time before taxpayers successfully challenge government subsidies to public-employee unions in the form of “release time,” “official time” or “association business leave” These terms all describe the same thing: provisions in union contracts.
Coercing these payments from taxpayers is no different in principle than requiring agency fees to the union as a condition of government employment.
The city of Austin is siphoning money that should go to vital emergency services and redirecting it towards a labor union’s political activity.
The lawsuit turned into the legal equivalent of the Bataan Death March.
Paxton: It is a basic tenet of democratic government that tax money be oriented towards a common good.
Judge Meachum’s ruling, upheld by the Third Court of Appeal, makes it impossible for taxpayers to challenge release time and similar provisions in public-sector union contracts.
Taxpayers cannot be forced to pay for the full-time activities of union officers engaged in lobbying, negotiations, grievance adjustment, and so forth.
Local 975 is asking the Texas Supreme Court to not only ignore—or negate—the no-gift clause of the state constitution.
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