Chicago Teachers Union, Local No. 1, Aft, Afl-cio, et al. v. Hudson et al. (475 U.S. 292)
U.S. Supreme Court · decided February 26, 1986 · Supreme Court Database (Spaeth)
- Citation
- 475 U.S. 292 · 106 S. Ct. 1066
- Decided
- February 26, 1986
- Term
- October Term 1985
- Vote
- 9–0
- Majority author
- Justice Stevens
- Issue area
- Unions
- Disposition
- Affirmed
- Outcome
- Petitioning party lost
- Ideological direction
- Conservative
Opinion excerpt
Justice Stevens delivered the opinion of the Court. In Abood v. Detroit Board of Education, 431 U. S. 209 (1977), “we found no constitutional barrier to an agency shop agreement between a municipality and a teacher’s union insofar as the agreement required every employee in the unit to pay a service fee to defray the costs of collective bargaining, contract administration, and grievance adjustment. The union, however, could not, consistently with the Constitution, collect from dissenting employees any sums for the support of ideological causes not germane to its duties as collective-bargaining agent.” Ellis v. Railway Clerks, 466 U. S. 435, 447 (1984). The Ellis case was primarily concerned with the need “to define the line between union expenditures that all employees must help defray and those that are not sufficiently related to collective bargaining to justify their being imposed on dissenters.” Ibid. In contrast, this case concerns the constitutionality of the procedure adopted by the Chicago Teachers Union, with the approval of the Chicago Board of Education, to draw that necessary line and to respond to nonmembers’ objections to the manner in which it was drawn. I The Chicago Teachers Union has acted as the exclusive collective-bargaining representative of the Board’s educational employees continuously since 1967. Approximately 95% of the 27,500 employees in the…
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