RICHARD EPSTEIN ON THE SUPREME COURT AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONS: End The “Agency Shop.”

As a matter of first principle, unions are the source of two evils: unified, they wreak harm on public services; divided, they offer shabby treatment to their dissident members. In an ideal world, the Supreme Court would use Friedrichs to dismantle mandatory collective bargaining root and branch. But short of that, what the Court should do, and do unanimously, is set dissenting workers free from union domination by striking down all agency shop provisions.

I agree with FDR that public-employee unions are an inherent conflict of interest. I hope that under President Cruz, the GOP Congress will abolish them.