Federal Judge Rules Against Faculty Union on Refunds of Nonmembers' Dues

The faculty union at the City University of New York must make it easier for nonmembers to receive refunds of union dues spent on activities other than collective bargaining, a federal judge ruled this month.

Magistrate Judge Lois Bloom, of the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, found that the union, the Professional Staff Congress (or PSC), misleadingly categorized certain political expenditures as "office supplies" expenses in a 2003 financial report.

The ruling was handed down

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