States, Cities Win Edge in Pension War With Supreme Court Ruling

No financial issue has dominated American states and cities in recent years as much as the massive shortfalls in their workers’ retirement funds, which have triggered battles between politicians and unions from New Jersey to California and helped push Detroit into a record-setting bankruptcy. On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court may have given governments a bit more of an upper hand. The court Wednesday ruled 5-to-4 that government employees have a constitutional right not to pay union fees, dealing a potentially heavy blow to the economic clout of the labor movement through a decision that affects 5 million workers.

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