A group of twenty community college faculty instructors in Minnesota refused to join the Minnesota Community College Faculty Association.

Under state law, faculty unions were given the exclusive right to engage in discussions with administrators about matters of academic policy.

The twenty nonmembers argued that this exclusive representation policy violated principles of free speech and academic freedom enshrined in the First Amendment.

How should the Supreme Court respond? See Minn. State Bd. for Community Colleges v. Knight

[465 U.S. 271 (1984)].