[Some] justices seemed receptive to [NRTWs Atty. William] Messenger’s argument, saying that the First Amendment limits what government workers may be forced to do to support bargaining positions they differ with. “Your position,” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy told Paul M. Smith, the lawyer for the health care workers’ union, “is that the public employees must surrender a substantial amount of First Amendment rights to work for the government.”
Posted on: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 01:00:00 +0000