FINANCIAL-CORE MEMBERSHIP

financial-core membership.Union membership in which a private-company employee pays

the union’s initiation fees and periodic dues but is not a full union member. • Financial-core

membership is allowed only in states without a right-to-work law, where a union-security contract

clause can require employees to pay financial-core membership dues but cannot require full union

membership. The dues are limited to the amount required to support the union’s representational

activities, such as collective bargaining. See Communications Workers of Am. v. Beck, 487 U.S.

735, 744, 108 S.Ct. 2641, 2648 (1988). — Also termed (in public-employment sector) fair-share

membership; agency-shop membership. See UNION-SECURITY CLAUSE.[Blacks Law 8th]