Pension Plan Lobbying Violates 1st Amendment Rights: Union

By Danielle Nichole Smith (February 26, 2018, 6:08 PM EST) -- Anticipating the end of "fair share" union fees by the Supreme Court, an engineering union's local chapter on Friday sued the pension fund for Illinois' municipal workers in federal court, arguing that the benefit plan's use of contribution funds for lobbying and other political activity violates union members' First Amendment rights....

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