Government Unions are Down — But Not Out

Originally published at The American Spectator

In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court humbled public sector union officials accustomed to taking advantage of the public employees they were supposed to serve. In Janus v. AFSCME, the court overturned a decades-old precedent that once forced public employees to pay union dues as a condition of employment.

After Janus, more public sector employees exercised their constitutional right to associate freely. Since 2018, the four largest government unions — the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), the National Education Association (NEA), and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) — have lost more than 380,000 fee payers and 320,000 members.

These huge membership drops have hit the big four’s bottom line. Collectively, lost members and fee payers cost AFT, AFSCME, NEA, and SEIU an estimated $106.8 million annually.

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