Now California Wants Taxpayers to Pay the Unions Dues? - Employer Attorney Los Angeles and Orange County

Hello fellow entrepreneurs. Today I want to talk about new benefits for labor unions in California. But first I’m an attorney, but I’m not your attorney. So please seek out competent counsel for your specific legal need or question.

All right, so a big political win for Newsom means a big win for organized labor, sorry, Newsom fans, but it is what it is. For those of you that don’t support small business in California and think they should pay their fair share, it is now time for every taxpayer to pay up to the union bosses.

Gavin Newsom signed a bill that will give California taxpayers the privilege to pay up to 400 million of public and private employees union dues. So whether you think it’s legally questionable or ethical assembly, bill 180 fives stated a tent is to help individuals with the cost of being a member of a union.

I would say there’s a glaring conflict of interest here, but what do I know? Do you guys see it? Unions directly finance political campaigns, according to an estimate from the California Policy Center, unions in California spend at least a third of members’ dues and estimated 300 to 600 million per election cycle on explicitly political purposes such as campaign Trump contributions.

Hmm. Is it ethical to fund unions with citizens money to then have those unions give the money right back to the politicians that took the money from the citizens? Seems a bit suspicious to me, but look at the bright side. Private citizens, you are contributing to the political system whether you want to or not.

Will this new law hold up? Are politicians forcing taxpayers to fund the political speech of a private organization? Well, who knows, really? But it does seem to violate the First Amendment.

In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that public sector unions are inherently political and therefore states cannot force their employees to pay public employee union dues.

While this new law goes a step further by forcing the public to pay union dues, even though it could be argued that taxpayers don’t directly pay the compensation of the union members, they are nevertheless affected by their political activities.

So, for example, unions were the source of California’s AB five law that costs thousands of California independent contractors their livelihoods, and contributed to an estimated quarter of a million people leaving the state last year.

So tell me, would you wanna contribute to that? Anyway, wake up taxpayers, hold these crooks accountable.

Until next time, be productive.