{"id":1590,"date":"2005-09-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"golden-state-educators-file-civil-rights-lawsuit-against-unions-to-block-funds-for-anti-schwarzenegger-electioneering","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/golden-state-educators-file-civil-rights-lawsuit-against-unions-to-block-funds-for-anti-schwarzenegger-electioneering\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden State Educators File Civil Rights Lawsuit Against Unions to Block Funds for Anti-Schwarzenegger Electioneering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><strong>Press Conference Rebroadcast time: 1:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. KU Satellite SBS6, Analog Transponder 9, Audio 6.2\/6.8, 11921Mhz, Horizontally<\/strong><\/center><strong>Sacramento, California (September 22, 2005)<\/strong> \u2013 A group of California teachers and professors today filed a statewide class-action lawsuit in federal court against the state\u2019s largest teacher and faculty unions seeking to bar union officials from forcing more than 350,000 California educators to pay significant dues increases earmarked for political electioneering during this year\u2019s special election. Filed by National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Jose, the civil rights suit seeks to enjoin the use or further collection of a $60-per-teacher mandatory dues increase imposed by California Teacher Association (CTA) union officials and a 10 percent mandatory dues increase imposed by California Faculty Association (CFA) officials that are earmarked for efforts to defeat Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger\u2019s ballot propositions. Since September 1, CTA union officials have written checks to several campaign committees totaling $23 million from a loan that is secured by guarantees of higher compulsory dues paid by educators as a job condition. Earlier in the summer, CTA officials announced another $22 million in expenditures. Like many public servants, the six named plaintiffs object to paying for union political activities with which they disagree, so they asked the Foundation for free legal assistance. They seek an order certifying their suit as a class action for all CTA members and nonmembers, and all CFA nonmembers. The educators also ask for an injunction to block the use or further collection of the special dues increase and an order that every teacher and professor be given notice and allowed to obtain a refund, plus interest. \u201cUnion officials are shamelessly fleecing rank-and-file educators to finance a political agenda that many educators oppose,\u201d stated National Right to Work Foundation Vice President <a href=\"mailto:shg@nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a>. \u201cNo one in America should be forced to join or pay dues to a union they do not support. This case demonstrates how egregiously union officials abuse the special privileges they have obtained under California law.\u201d In the Foundation-won U.S. Supreme Court ruling in <a href=\"\/foundation-won.htm#Hudson\"><i>Chicago Teachers Union v. Hudson<\/i><\/a> (1986), the high court ruled that public employees have due process rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to be notified, as potential objectors, of how their forced union dues are spent, and how to prevent the spending of their dues for non-collective bargaining purposes. However, the CTA and CFA unions have failed to give educators any opportunity to object and have rebuffed those who have objected. To prevent the further violation of their constitutional rights, the teachers ask that the forced dues be placed into escrow, because, as Foundation attorneys note in their complaint, \u201cOnce the employees\u2019 money is spent, contrary to their wishes, to affect the outcome of ballot propositions\u2026 the employees\u2019 First Amendment rights are irretrievably lost.\u201d For more information, contact <strong><a href=\"mailto:jah@nrtw.org\">Justin Hakes<\/a> at (916) 844-4264<\/strong> or <strong><a href=\"mailto:shg@nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a> at (916) 844-4265<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Conference Rebroadcast time: 1:00 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. KU Satellite SBS6, Analog Transponder 9, Audio 6.2\/6.8, 11921Mhz, HorizontallySacramento, California (September 22, 2005) \u2013 A group of California teachers and professors today filed a statewide class-action lawsuit in federal court against the state\u2019s largest teacher and faculty unions seeking to bar union officials from forcing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1590","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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