LANSING (WHTC) - The Michigan Education Association and three other labor unions have filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging an area lawmaker’s measure that Governor Snyder just signed into law, banning the automatic deduction of union dues from public school employee paychecks. The suit, filed in federal court in Detroit, alleges the new law violates both the First and 14^th amendments to the U.S. Constitution by  “discriminating against school employees as retribution for political speech and treating school employees differently than other classifications of the workers without reason.” The new law was sponsored by Republican Representative Joe Haveman of Holland.