The Fairness Center
Representing those hurt by public-sector union officials
The Fairness Center
WHO WE ARE:
The Fairness Center is a nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services to those hurt by public-sector union officials. We advocate for our clients both in the court of law and the court of public opinion.
WHO WE SERVE:
Our clients are public employees and others defending their constitutional rights, facing union retaliation, fighting unfair representation, or demanding accountability for corruption by union officials.
WHERE WE OPERATE:
We offer our free legal services in the states of Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New York, Colorado, and New Jersey and we serve federal government employees wherever they work or reside.
Who we are: The Fairness Center is a nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services to those hurt by public-sector union officials. We advocate for our clients both in the court of law and the court of public opinion. Our clients are public employees and others defending their constitutional rights, facing union retaliation, fighting unfair representation, or demanding accountability for corruption by union officials. We offer our free legal services in the states of Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New York, Colorado, and New Jersey and we serve federal government employees wherever they work or reside.
Latest News
A Teachers Union Candidate Took My Money and Ran for Office
Op-Ed | The Wall Street Journal
October 18, 2025: “The membership forms we signed, which function as a contract between a member and the union, have a separate box to check for voluntary donations to the union’s political action committee. I didn’t check that box, and therefore believed my money wouldn’t be used by a PAC. That wasn’t true. [. . .]
I believe union officials should play by the rules. And I want my choice to stay out of union politics to be respected. Most of all, I want to hold accountable those who, behind closed doors, benefited themselves at teachers’ expense.” Read more from our client, Dr. Marie Dupont.
My Teachers’ Union Calls it Representation. I Say There Are $114 Million Reasons to Sue Them
Op-Ed | Fox News
October 28, 2025: “My co-plaintiff and I believe that the NJEA’s dues-funded PAC spending spree broke its contract with teachers and violated its legal duty to represent our best interests. We hope that through legal action, we can ensure that the union respects teachers’ voices and returns its focus to negotiating fair contracts and high workplace standards.”
NJ Teachers Union Misused Dues to Fund Chief’s Bid for Governor, Lawsuit Claims
News | New Jersey Monitor
September 30, 2025: “Two public school teachers are suing the New Jersey Education Association, alleging the teachers’ union violated the law when it funneled $40 million to former union president Sean Spiller’s gubernatorial campaign this spring.”
NJ Teachers, Think Tank Challenge NJEA’s $40 Million Political Spending
News Release | The Fairness Center
September 30, 2025: “Two longtime New Jersey teachers and a statewide think tank are taking legal action against the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) over its use of tens of millions of dollars of its members’ mandatory union dues to bankroll its president’s political campaign.”
The Union I Paid to Protect Me Turned a False Accusation into a Witch Hunt
Op-Ed | The Fairness Center
September 8, 2025: “As a 20-year teacher, I have some advice for New Jersey educators double-checking their lesson plans and preparing to return to the classroom: take a close look at who’s running your union. Union officials are meant to defend their members. But what happens when they vilify them instead? I found out the hard way.”
Teachers’ Union Political Obsessions are Harming Children
Op-Ed | The Washington Times
August 11, 2025: “Recently, outgoing AFT President Randi Weingarten wrote that teachers unions are committed to ‘protect[ing] people’s rights to both their own expression and safe classrooms.’ That sounds nice on paper, but when I respectfully spoke my mind, the union turned its back on me.”
Labor Day is Ringing Hollow for These Pennsylvania Workers
Op-Ed | TribLive
September 1, 2025: “Across Pennsylvania, other public employees are realizing that union officials sometimes serve themselves and their allies instead of the employees they claim to represent. . . The law says union officials must provide fair representation to all the employees they represent. But too often, they pick and choose whom to help, when to help, or whether to help at all, in ways that seem to benefit themselves.”
How Labor Unions Are Quietly Fueling Campus Anti-Semitism
Op-Ed | The Daily Wire
July 25, 2025: “At last week’s House hearing on rising antisemitism in higher education, lawmakers confronted UC Berkeley Chancellor Rich Lyons about me, an Israeli Jewish scientist suing my own labor union, the United Auto Workers, for antisemitic discrimination. . . I applaud lawmakers who are shining a light on these abuses. I never imagined I’d feel unsafe as a scientist working in America. But that’s my reality.”
How Labor Unions Are Feeding Anti-Semitism on University Campuses
Op-Ed | The Wall Street Journal
July 8, 2025: “The experiences of Mr. Lax and Ms. Yaniv expose a structural problem for Jews at public universities. Join the union and face harassment and discrimination, or leave the union and lose any voice in the workplace. When CUNY and UC Berkeley officials appear before the House Education Committee, they should explain how they plan to resolve this Catch-22.”
Colorado Public Employees Deserve The Truth from Union Officials
Op-Ed | The Colorado Sun
July 8, 2025: “The growing rift between Polis and organized labor shows that union officials are willing to cross their own…when their influence is threatened. That pattern doesn’t just stop at the Capitol. From Pueblo to Denver, union officials are stretching—and possibly breaking—the law to protect their power, undermining the rights of the very rank-and-file public employees they claim to represent.”