{"id":1368,"date":"2003-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"operating-engineer-union-hit-with-federal-charges-for-threatening-to-get-employees-fired","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/operating-engineer-union-hit-with-federal-charges-for-threatening-to-get-employees-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Operating Engineer Union Hit With Federal Charges For Threatening to Get Employees Fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>El Paso, Texas (March 11, 2003)<\/b> \u2013 With the help of attorneys from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, a worker for a federal contractor at Ft. Bliss today filed federal charges against officials of a local engineering union and his employer for illegally forcing him to pay full union dues as a job condition. Cordev Inc. employee Richard Cabler, a non-union member, filed the unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) union Local 35 and Cordev. The union\u2019s officials illegally threatened to get him fired for refusing to pay full dues, including dues spent for politics and other activities unrelated to collective bargaining.  \u201cIn an effort to stuff their coffers, union officials are demanding that employees simply shut up and pay up,\u201d said <a href=\"mailto:shg@nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a>, vice president of the National Right to Work Foundation.  In December 2002, both IUOE union officials and Cordev notified all employees at the Fort Bliss facility that they would be fired if they failed to sign a dues check-off card forcing employees in the bargaining unit to pay full dues. However, the workers never received timely notice of their right to refrain from formal union membership and pay only a reduced fee. These threats violate the workers\u2019 rights established by the Foundation-won U.S. Supreme Court <a href=\"\/foundation-won.htm#Beck\"><i>Communications Workers v. Beck<\/i><\/a> decision. Under Beck and subsequent NLRB rulings, union officials must specifically inform employees of their right to refrain from formal union membership and paying any costs other than those directly related to collective bargaining. The Cordev controversy is somewhat unique in the Lone Star State, since Texas has a highly popular Right to Work law that bans compulsory unionism. However, because Cordev\u2019s employees work on federal property under exclusive federal jurisdiction, the state\u2019s Right to Work law does not protect them. \u201cThe abusive actions of IUOE union officials show why most Texas workers are fortunate to have the protections of a Right to Work Law,\u201d said Gleason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Paso, Texas (March 11, 2003) \u2013 With the help of attorneys from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, a worker for a federal contractor at Ft. 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