Texas has work to do to be sure that special privileges for government union chiefs will not be tolerated post-Janus.
Key points:
- Texas citizens can take pride in the fact that the laws of their state prohibited compulsory union financial support in the private and public sectors for decades before Janus.
- But the loopholes in Texas’ general ban on collectivist unionism in government and the state’s lack of a clear statutory ban on the use of taxpayer funds to cover union operating costs continue to undermine the free-speech rights of public workers and taxpayers.
- Post-Janus, these special privileges for government union chiefs should not be tolerated in Texas or anywhere else in the U.S.