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    Beleaguered CUNY Professors Appeal to SCOTUS for Relief from Union They Claim Is Antisemitic

    August 6, 2024 // The cert petition says the heart of their complaint is the question, “Can the government force Jewish professors to accept the representation of an advocacy group they rightly consider to be anti-Semitic?” They claim that various Supreme Court rulings, including Janus and NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., articulate their First Amendment right to “eschew association for expressive purposes” and “boycott entities to express a message.” The petition charges the lower courts have misinterpreted Knight, saying that ruling “did not sanction a state forcing Jewish faculty members who are ardent Zionists to accept the representation of a union that supports policies they consider anti-Israel,” and urges the Court to grant to petition to “clarify Knight and make clear that the First Amendment protects individuals’ right to dissociate themselves from advocacy groups that support policies contrary to their deeply held beliefs.”

    Anti-Semitic Avraham Goldstein City University of New York CUNY Fairness Center First Amendment Frimette Kass-Shraibman Goldstein v. Professional Staff Congress/CUNY Janus Jeffrey Lax Maria Pagano Michael Goldstein Minnesota Board of Community Colleges v. Knight Mitchell Langbert NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. Nathan McGrath National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation New York Professional Staff Congress professors Public Employees public-college public-sector union Religious Freedom SCOTUS Taylor Law

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    CUNY profs appeal to SCOTUS to leave anti-Semitic public sector union

    July 31, 2024 // The National Right to Work Foundation (NRTW) and the Fairness Center, which are representing the professors, recently appealed to the Supreme Court to hear the case. The groups argue that compulsory union representation violates citizens’ right to freedom of association. The professors each resigned their membership from the union, CUNY’s Professional Staff Congress (PSC-CUNY), following that group’s issuance of a pro-Hamas, anti-Israel resolution in 2021.

    Anti-Semitic Avraham Goldstein compulsory unionism CUNY Fairness Center First Amendment freedom of association Frimette Kass-Shraibman Hamas Jeffrey Lax Jewish Maria Pagano Michael Goldstein Mitchell Langbert Nathan McGrath National Right to Work Foundation New York Professional Staff Congress (PSC) professors Public Sector public-sector union Supreme Court Taylor Law