WASHINGTON - Today, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on the fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Janus v. AFSCME, which gave workers the right to choose whether to pay fees to a union or not:
“Five years ago, Janus v. AFSCME yielded a monumental victory for both free speech and the American workforce. Workers’ rights were recognized. Since that ruling, workers have enjoyed the freedom to choose whether to pay government unions. As a result, not surprisingly, public-sector-union membership has fallen as more workers are slapping away the desperate, outstretched palms of government union bosses. Today’s anniversary is a great reminder that no worker should be forced to pay a union in order to keep his or her job."