Home Health Care Workers No Longer Compelled to Fund Union

Seema Verma (R) speaks during a swearing-in ceremony, officiated by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence (L), in the Vice President's ceremonial office at Eisenhower Executive Building March 14, 2017 in Washington, DC. Verma is the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which has proposed a rule change that would bar states from deducing union dues from Medicaid payments to home health care workers. Alex Wong/Getty Images

Public employee unions are having another check placed on their ability to compel workers to pay union dues.

On June 27, the Supreme Court decided in Janus v. AFSCME that compelling individuals to pay dues to public employee unions violated their First Amendment rights.