On June 21, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Knox v. Service Employees International Union, Local 1000, No. 10-1121, holding that when a union representing public-sector employees imposes a special assessment or increases dues to meet expenses that were not disclosed when the original assessment was set, the union must provide a new notice under Teachers v. Hudson, 475 U.S. 292 (1986). In this notice, the union must provide an estimate of the portion of its expenses that relate to nonpolitical services such as collective bargaining, so that nonmembers do not pay the union for political, ideological, and other purposes not related to collective bargaining. (Jones, Webber, 2012)
Previously, I was employed at a community college in Connecticut.…