The following letter was published in The Chief:

Observations are principals’ stock-in-trade, but the president of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, Ernest Logan, made an especially astute one when he said that some of his members would not pay union dues voluntarily because it’s human nature to want something for nothing [“Fair-share dues fight: City unions coalesce to sway high court,” The Chief, Nov. 27].

That is actually what is motivating the Center for Individual Rights to propel the Friedrichs case into the Supreme Court — by crushing the ability of public-sector unions to effectively represent their members, they think that they can impoverish the middle class and line their own pockets.

However, it is human nature to fight back against oppression. This is America at its best — whether it was the crown, the slavocracy, the Axis powers or Jim Crow that had to be stopped. Today, we draw strength from the sacrifices of the generations that came before us. In the battle to protect unions, defeat is not an option.

Robin Berger, retired