Louisville Public Media: Teachers unions and other state employee organizations can continue collecting dues through payroll deduction for now. Meanwhile, Attorney General Daniel Cameron has filed an appeal.
Berry Craig
By JESS CLARK
Franklin Circuit Court Judge Thomas Wingate ruled against a 2023 Kentucky law that prohibited teachers unions and most other state employee labor organizations from collecting membership dues through payroll deduction.
Wingate said the law, known as Senate Bill 7, enforced an “unconstitutional distinction” between labor organizations, because it applied the prohibition to all state employee organizations except police unions and firefighter unions.
“The classification … is one that can best be summed up as favoritism for certain labor organizations performing the same services as non-exempted labor organizations,” Wingate wrote in his Aug. 30 opinion.