Groups ask Supreme Court to revisit public employee union dues

Published June 6, 2017 3:08pm ET



Free-market groups are asking the Supreme Court to again take up the issue of whether public-sector employees can be forced to contribute to a union as a condition of employment.

The justices deadlocked 4-4 on a similar case last year following Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, leaving the question unresolved by the court. Now that Justice Neil Gorsuch has replaced Scalia, the court may decide to take it up again.

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