Virginia Penske employees join growing movement of rank-and-file workers cutting ties with the Teamsters
Sandston, VA (September 23, 2026) – Employees at Penske Truck Leasing are officially free from the unwanted “representation” of Teamsters Local 592 union officials, after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) certified a vote of Penske workers to “decertify” Teamsters union bosses. The decertification effort was spearheaded by Penske employee Jordan Cutrell, who received free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys during the decertification process.
The NLRB is the federal agency responsible for enforcing federal labor law, a task that includes administering votes to install (or “certify”) and remove (or “decertify”) unions. Cutrell’s petition was signed by an overwhelming majority of his coworkers, triggering the NLRB to administer a secret-ballot election, which took place on September 10 at Penske’s Trampton Road location in Sandston, Virginia, among all full-time and regular part-time technicians and customer service representatives.
Ultimately, the employees voted unanimously 9-0 to terminate Teamsters officials’ power as the workers’ monopoly bargaining “representative.”
Virginia is one of 26 states with a Right to Work law, which safeguards workers by making union membership and dues payment strictly voluntary. However, even in Right to Work states, federal law grants union officials the power to impose their exclusive “representation” on every employee in a work unit, including those who never voted for, joined, or supported the union.
Cutrell and his colleagues are the latest in a growing number of workers who have approached the Foundation to exercise their legal right to remove Teamsters union officials from their workplaces. In just the past few years, Foundation-assisted Penske employees have successfully removed unwanted union bosses from their facilities at several locations across the country, including Dallas, TX, Bloomington, IN, Eagan and Roseville, MN, Nashville, TN, and Swedesboro, NJ.
Just this month, Foundation attorneys also secured a settlement for UPS worker and former Teamsters president Andrew Davis, in his dispute with the Teamsters over union bosses targeting him for informing his coworkers of their legal rights to not be union members and for filing charges against the union with the NLRB. Davis filed his charges after Teamsters officials falsely claimed, in front of his coworkers, that it was a “federal crime” to discuss how to resign their union membership.
“Every day Teamsters bosses give workers new reasons not to want to associate with the union, and we are pleased to have assisted Mr. Cutrell and his coworkers in reclaiming their workplace freedom,” stated National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix. “Foundation attorneys will continue to be a resource for all rank-and-file workers wanting to exercise their legal right to end their affiliation with the Teamsters.”
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable organization providing free legal aid to employees whose human or civil rights have been violated by compulsory unionism abuses. The Foundation, which can be contacted toll-free at 1-800-336-3600, assists thousands of employees in about 200 cases nationwide per year.
