To the Supreme Court of the United States—

We, the undersigned, support the right of public employees to unionize as upheld by the US Supreme Court in 1977. Public employee unions have the right to require that everyone they represent pay a "fair share" or "agency" fee to cover the union’s costs to negotiate and enforce a contract that covers all the public employees, even those who choose not to be union members.

Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association is a thinly-veiled anti-labor attack on all workers, and public-sector employees in particular.

By accepting this case, after it was soundly rejected by the Appeals Court, the Supreme Court threatens to gut the collective bargaining rights of workers and further entrench the power of big business. History proves strong unions work to level the economic playing field. The weakening of unions correlates directly with the drastic worsening of income inequality and the extreme concentration of wealth among a small minority.

We call on the Supreme Court to reject the Friedrichs case in its entirety, uphold the Appeals Court decision and uphold the 1977 decision in Abood v. Detroit Board of Education. 

(This petition and all signatures will be mailed to the U.S. Supreme Court.)