EMPLOYER INTERFERENCE, RESTRAINT, COERCION; EMPLOYER INTERFERENCE WITH, RESTRAINT, OR COERCION OF EMPLOYEES – Right Not to Participate

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400.00000 – EMPLOYER INTERFERENCE, RESTRAINT, COERCION; EMPLOYER INTERFERENCE WITH, RESTRAINT, OR COERCION OF EMPLOYEES
400.02000 – Right Not to Participate

Neither MMBA section 3502 nor the Fourteenth Amendment is offended by a system of service or agency fees. The union chosen by a majority of unit employees as the exclusive representative of the employees in the bargaining unit, may implement a service or agency fee system requiring all unit employees either to join the union or in lieu of joining to pay the union a service or agency fee. (Abood v. Detroit Bd. of Educ. (1977) 431 U.S. 209, 221-222; Cumero v. Public Employment Relations Bd. (1989) 49 Cal.3d 575, 588-589.) Due process protections required as a condition to implementing a service or agency fee are sufficient to protect employees’ interests under the Fourteenth Amendment. (Chicago Teachers Union v. Hudson (1986) 475 U.S. 292.)