Manhattan Moment: Compelled unionism is peonage, not patronage

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The Supreme Court will soon decide whether a state can force government employees to support a union.

In January, the justices heard oral arguments in Harris v. Quinn, a case that could reverse a 37-year-old precedent that greatly empowered government-employee unions at the expense of citizens’ constitutional rights.

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