Lights, Camera, Action: Why the Hollywood Writers Strike Matters
If you work for a living in this increasingly unfair economy — or just watch TV — you have a stake in the Hollywood writers strike.
This week, the supreme court heard a case that will probably decimate American unions by going after them in the one bastion they have left, the public sector.
The case, Janus v AFSCME, promises to be the most consequential judicial decision for the US labor movement in a generation. The Republican-leaning court is widely expected to overturn 40 years of legal precedent by outlawing a major source of funding for public employees’ unions, called agency fees.
The fact that few people know what these fees are works in the favor of conservative groups which have been pushing anti-union legislation and lawsuits under the guise of defending workers against “compulsory union membership.” There is, in fact, no such thing: nowhere in the US can workers be compelled to join a union, nor contribute money to unions’ political activities.
Read the full article at The Guardian and view a related interview with Michael Paarlberg on Rising Up with Sonali below.
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