Lapeer, Mich.—The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled Sept. 12 that the state’s 2013 law banning the union
shop gave a county clerk the right to stop paying union dues even if she hadn’t resigned during the union’s official opt-out period. A three-judge panel in an unpublished opinion overruled the state Employment Relations Commission’s 2016 decision regarding Tina House, a clerk with Lapeer County east of Flint, who had sought to leave Teamsters Local 214. House, a Local 214 member of from 2000 to 2013, resigned after the state’s “right-to-work” law went into effect, but the union would not let her stop paying dues because she hadn’t left during the June 1-16 “window” for withdrawing. She challenged the ruling with backing from the National Right to Work Foundation. Read more
