Recent News About Morris & De La Rosa
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Two Chicago teachers and a Moline custodian claimed their unions ignored the Supreme Court and the Constitution by limiting their ability to leave the union only to one "escape period" each year.
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The Chicago Teachers Union and the Chicago Board of Education are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to refuse a request for a hearing by two teachers, who claim the union violated their free speech by deducting dues to subsidize political positions without their consent.
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker facing renewed challenges to his pandemic authority, as school officials and others question his power under Illinois law to override local control and use legally questionable threats against schools and students to compel compliance with public health mandates.
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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.
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The lawsuit asks a federal judge to declare unconstitutional a provision of the Illinois labor law for educational institutions which unions and schools rely on to deduct union dues from workers' paychecks.
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A new federal class action asserts labor union SEIU Healthcare Illinois and Indiana threw up illegal barriers to make it harder for personal assistants to leave the union and stop paying dues, violating their constitutional rights.
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A federal judge has determined a state employee — notable for his public anti-union stances — can’t intervene on behalf of the state in a lawsuit it faces from a union leader asking courts to declare unions aren’t obligated to represent employees who refuse to pay membership dues.
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Saying Illinois’ attorney general’s defense is “inadequate” and is “bordering on malpractice,” an Illinois state employee who factored in the court action that led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to strike down rules requiring non-union workers to pay fees to unions has again jumped into a federal court action, this time asking a judge to allow his legal team to defend the state against a union’s attempt to secure a court order striking down labor laws requiring them to represent all workers in a collective bargaining unit.
