Theresa Riffey v. Bruce Rauner

Wood, Chief Judge.

When this case was last before our court, we upheld the district court's decision declining to certify a class of home health care assistants ("the Assistants") who were seeking a refund of the fair-share fees they had paid to a union for collective-bargaining representation. We agreed with the putative class that no one could be compelled to pay fair-share fees, pursuant to the Supreme Court's decision in Harris v. Quinn , --- U.S. ----, 134 S.Ct. 2618 , 189 L.Ed.2d 620 (2014), and that any such objector would be entitled to have his or her payments refunded. The only…