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Appeals court says Waukegan teacher can't sue a teachers union she claimed she joined by mistake

By Dan Churney | Tuesday, Jan 10, 2023 @ 10:41am

A federal appeals panel has ruled a Waukegan teacher can't claim she mistakenly joined the teachers union because she thought membership was mandatory, saying government workers' right to refrain from union membership does not override a voluntarily signed agreement to join.
CTU didn't violate educators' rights by giving them only one window per year to rescind their membership, stop paying dues: Judge

By Scott Holland | Tuesday, Mar 2, 2021 @ 11:58pm

A federal judge in Chicago tossed the class action lawsuit brought by teachers who claimed a U.S. Supreme Court decision should invalidate union member agreements that give members one time per year to quit the union.
Janus decision could give IL caregivers new shot at reclaiming $32M in unconstitutional union fees: SCOTUS

By Jonathan Bilyk | Thursday, Jun 28, 2018 @ 4:37pm

A day after overturning the legal precedent that allowed public sector unions to use the state to grab a share of non-union workers’ paychecks, the U.S. Supreme Court has ordered a federal appeals court in Chicago to use its ruling to take another look at his decision forbidding a group of home caregivers from suing a labor union to claw back some of the $32 million in similar fees the state had taken from the caregivers and paid to the union.