D. Agency Fees

• Jurisdiction: New York

D. Agency Fees

Prior to June 27, 2018, public sector unions, under the Taylor Law,⁴⁷⁶ and private sector unions, under the NLRA⁴⁷⁷ and under the RLA,⁴⁷⁸ required bargaining unit employees who chose not to join the union to pay a fee in lieu of union dues, usually called an agency fee, for representation. Such fee is usually the amount of union dues, from which, at the request of the agency feepayer, the pro rata share of expenditures for political, ideological and other non-representation-related reasons must be deducted. Neither the SERA nor the decisions issued pursuant to that statute have addressed...