U.S. Supreme Court Effectively Upholds Fair Share Payments For Union-Represented Employees

The eight-member U.S. Supreme Court split evenly on whether to reverse longstanding precedent allowing unions to charge public employees their fair share of costs associated with collective bargaining. The Court deadlocked on the request to gut public sector unions by business-funded litigants. As a result of the split vote of the Highest Court, the 9th Circuit's Court of Appeals' decision is affirmed. The 9th Circuit's decision affirmed longstanding precedent.

It is widely believed that Justice Antonin Scalia would have voted against public sector unions. As a result, the fate of groups that advocate for workers may be controlled by the judicial philosophy of the next individual successfully appointed to the Supreme Court