Chicago Teachers Union, Local No. 1 v. Hudson

Chicago Teachers Union, Local No. 1 v. Hudson (1986) was significant for school labor relations, because in it the U.S. Supreme Court found that a union's process for accommodating nonmember teachers, sometimes referred to as “free-riders,” who had money automatically deducted from their paychecks to cover the union's costs associated with collective bargaining, did not sufficiently ensure the protection of the First Amendment rights of nonmem-bers. The Court reasoned that the union's procedures for collecting these fees were unacceptable, because [Page 154]the monies that they collected from nonunion teachers could possibly have been used for political activities that the nonunion teachers did not support.