In 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that home-care workers have a First Amendment right not to pay fees to a union they don’t wish to join. Since then, the Freedom Foundation in Washington State has sought to notify affected employees of their rights. The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has refused to provide the Freedom Foundation with the names of their members. Now that SEIU has lost a court case to block the Freedom Foundation’s information request, they have sponsored a ballot known as the Seniors and Vulnerable Individuals’ Safety and Financial Crimes Prevention Act. Under the ballot measure, the Freedom Foundation or other outsiders would be blocked from obtaining the list of union members’ names. Read the Wall Street Journal’s take on the fraudulent ballot here.
