In the five years since the Supreme Court's ruling in Janus v. AFSCME that public sector workers cannot be forced to pay union dues, many unions have adopted a novel legal strategy in response: forgery.
In the five years since the Supreme Court’s ruling in Janus v. AFSCME that public sector workers cannot be forced to pay union dues, many unions have adopted a novel legal strategy in response: forgery. In case after case, workers have had money taken directly out of their paychecks by unions based on forged authorizations.
After the Janus ruling, Ms. Quezambra sought to invoke her rights to stop the involuntary union dues payments, demanding she be refunded going back to 2013. The union refused on the grounds that she had allowed the union to make the deductions. This was news to Ms. Queszambra. Torey Jarrett, an employee of Marion County, Oregon, similarly discovered in 2018 that an AFSCME local was deducting dues from her paycheck based on an authorization she never signed. The local has never acknowledged the deception or offered to reimburse the stolen wages.
The Supreme Court’s 2018 Janus ruling said it was a violation of public sector workers’ First Amendment rights to require them to support a union against their wishes. The ruling said that the dues money could be taken only if the worker “affirmatively consents.” Unions force workers to follow arbitrary and bafflingly complex rules to opt out. The process usually involves brief time windows when workers can opt out and long, drawn-out periods for processing workers’ requests.
Eventually, the union sent him a 2017 membership card it claimed he had signed. Mr. Mendoza says he never signed it. The fine print on the membership cards allowed the union to continue to deduct “service fees” equal to full dues, even after members resigned.
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