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Avraham Goldstein, a mathematics professor at the City University of New York (CUNY), is leading a significant legal challenge against forced union association. Goldstein, along with other professors, filed a federal lawsuit in 2022 against the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) union, CUNY, and State of New York officials. The lawsuit contests New York State’s “Taylor Law,” which grants unions monopoly bargaining power in the public sector.
The professors are seeking intervention from the U.S. Supreme Court to clarify that the First Amendment protects public sector workers from being represented by unions they oppose. According to their petition, "The core issue in this case is straightforward: can the government force Jewish professors to accept the representation of an advocacy group they rightly consider to be anti-Semitic? The answer plainly should be ‘no.’”
Staff attorneys from the National Right to Work Foundation and The Fairness Center have supported this litigation through various levels of the federal court system. They aim for a ruling that would establish new protections against what they describe as forced union association.
