America's unions suffered a major loss lat week when the Supreme Court ruled public employee unions could not collect fees from non-members to underwrite collective bargaining. Indeed, it's not an exaggeration to say that, after the court's decision in Janus vs. AFSCME, organized labor should rethink its strategies, structures and models.
While the two of us — a progressive labor leader and the head of a conservative think tank — have vastly different opinions about the court's ruling, we both agree it ought to be a catalyst for change in the labor movement.
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