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    With Janus ruling, Supreme Court seals a 40-year campaign to eviscerate worker rights

    by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times Jun 28, 2018 5 minutes

    In what was probably its least unexpected ruling, written by the least unexpected justice, the Supreme Court Wednesday delivered a blow to public workers for which the right wing has been thirsting for decades.

    The court's decision in the case of Janus v. AFSCME seemed a foregone conclusion, after a few near-misses in recent years. The court's conservative majority had made no secret of its hostility to public-employee unions in a string of earlier cases. The author of the Janus decision, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., had become been the leading spear carrier in this campaign after the 2016 death of its previous leader, Antonin Scalia.

    The Janus ruling applied to one key aspect of public1employee contracts - the so-called agency fee. That's the fee

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