A Pennsylvania musician’s claim that he can’t be forced to pay union dues could expand the right recently granted by the U.S. Supreme Court for public employees to opt out of supporting labor unions. Lawyers representing Lehigh Valley percussionist Glen Wilkofsky have asked the Supreme Court to consider whether the Allentown Symphony Association wrongly threatened to fire Wilkofsky when he stopped paying dues to the American Federation of Musicians.
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A longtime drummer with the Allentown Symphony Orchestra lost a federal lawsuit in which he claimed the nonprofit and its musicians’ union should be barred from requiring performers to pay union dues.