INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -
The Indiana Supreme Court has issued an order throwing out the last
remaining constitutional challenge to Indiana’s right-to-work law banning
mandatory union fees.
The (Munster) Times
reports the state’s highest court on Wednesday released an order vacating a
Lake County ruling that found the 2012 law unconstitutionally required labor
unions to provide services to nonunion members without compensation.
Local 150 of the
International Union of Operating Engineers had argued in the Lake County
case that federal labor law required it to represent all employees in a
bargaining unit, but the Indiana Supreme Court ruled last month that that
occurs only when a union chooses to be an exclusive bargaining agent.
The 7th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals also upheld the Indiana law in September.