{"id":1605,"date":"2005-11-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"federal-judge-blocks-unlawful-union-dues-seizures-from-state-government-employees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/federal-judge-blocks-unlawful-union-dues-seizures-from-state-government-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Blocks Unlawful Union Dues Seizures From State Government Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sacramento, California (November 3, 2005)<\/strong> \u2013 Acknowledging irreparable harm to government employees\u2019 constitutional rights, a federal judge issued a <a href=\"\/california\/tro_order.pdf\">temporary restraining order<\/a> from the bench late Wednesday against the State of California and the California State Employees Association (CSEA) union, halting the use and further collection of a mandatory dues increase for politics from eight nonmember state employees. At the same time, Morrison C. England Jr., U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of California, scheduled a hearing tomorrow morning to consider an immediate statewide injunction that would bar union officials from seizing forced dues for politics from roughly 37,000 similarly situated CSEA nonmembers who are not already named plaintiffs in the case. The civil rights complaint, filed by nine state government employees (union members and nonmembers) on Tuesday with free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, seeks a ruling that would require union officials to give over 100,000 union members and non-members due process, including proper financial disclosure, a formal notice that they may reclaim the forced dues spent for electioneering, and rebates, plus interest, to all who request it.  Since September 30, CSEA (Local 1000, Service Employees International Union) officials have been collecting a 25-36 percent (or more) mandatory dues increase earmarked to influence this year\u2019s special election. The \u201cEmergency Temporary Assessment to Build a Political Fight-Back Fund\u201d was imposed on government employees for a broad range of political and other non-collective bargaining activities. Union officials openly admit the \u201cFund will not be used for regular costs of the union,\u201d but for political advertising, direct mail, and get-out-the-vote activities. According to the California Secretary of State, the CSEA union and affiliates have forwarded more than $22 million to various ballot proposition committees. A related suit, filed by Foundation-assisted teachers in September, forced California Teacher Association (CTA) union officials to allow forced dues paying nonmembers to reclaim a $60 dues increase. Similar claims on behalf of actual members of the teacher union are still pending before the court. CTA union officials, like the CSEA union, implemented their dues increase to fund electioneering to defeat several of Governor Schwarzenegger\u2019s propositions on the November 8 ballot. \u201cThis ruling shows that these forced dues seizures are occurring in violation of the law \u2013 and it raises questions as to the legality and legitimacy of Big Labor\u2019s entire political campaign,\u201d stated National Right to Work Foundation Vice President <a href=\"mailto:shg@nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a>. \u201cUnion officials are fleecing public employees to finance a political agenda with which many disagree, while fighting tooth-and-nail to keep these employees in the dark about their rights.\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>, the high court ruled that public employees have due process rights under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to be notified of how their forced union dues are spent, and how to prevent the spending of their dues for union political activities. However, CSEA union officials have not given public employees any opportunity to object to the dues increase. A hearing on the statewide injunction will occur tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California in Sacramento, in Courtroom Three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sacramento, California (November 3, 2005) \u2013 Acknowledging irreparable harm to government employees\u2019 constitutional rights, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order from the bench late Wednesday against the State of California and the California State Employees Association (CSEA) union, halting the use and further collection of a mandatory dues increase for politics from eight [&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-1605","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Federal Judge Blocks Unlawful Union Dues Seizures From State Government Employees - 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