News in Brief: A State Capitals Roundup
Wash. Teachers' Union Fined
For Its Spending on Politics
A superior court in Washington state fined the 70,000-member Washington Education Association $400,000 last week for illegal financing of political campaigns.
Judge Gary Tabor found that the union, an affiliate of the National Education Association, had violated a state public-disclosure law mandating that unions ask nonmembers' permission to use their fees for political purposes. About 3,000 people pay fees to the WEA for indirectly representing them in collective-bargaining matters but do not belong to the...
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