{"id":11221,"date":"2019-06-20T09:38:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T14:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=11221"},"modified":"2019-06-20T09:38:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T14:38:50","slug":"wv-amicus-06202019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/wv-amicus-06202019\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia Worker Submits Amicus Brief to State Supreme Court Defending Right to Work Law Against Union Boss Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mountain State union lawyers\u2019 legal challenge seeks to re-impose Big Labor\u2019s power to have workers fired for refusing to pay union dues or fees<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

Charleston, WV (June 20, 2019)<\/strong> \u2013 National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys have just filed an amicus brief urging the West Virginia Supreme Court to uphold the state\u2019s popular Right to Work law in a case challenging that law brought by a coalition of unions. The brief is being submitted on behalf of West Virginia employee Donna Harper, who works as a laundry aide and nursing assistant at the Genesis HealthCare Tygert Center in Fairmont, West Virginia. The West Virginia-based Cardinal Institute and Americans For Prosperity are also listed along with the National Right to Work Foundation on the brief submitted to the West Virginia Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

Harper\u2019s brief was filed to defend her rights, as without the protection of West Virginia\u2019s Right to Work law she could be fired solely for refusing to fund union activities. Under Right to Work union membership and financial support are strictly voluntary, whereas without such protections union officials can order a worker fired simply for refusing to pay union dues or fees. Because the workplace where Harper works is under Chauffeurs, Teamsters and Helpers Local Union No. 175 monopoly representation, elimination of her Right to Work protections would result in her being fired for refusing to financially support the union\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n

West Virginia\u2019s Right to Work law was passed in February 2016 when West Virginia legislators overrode then-Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin\u2019s veto, making West Virginia the 26th Right to Work state. There are currently 27 states with Right to Work laws. Additionally, all public employees have Right to Work protections under the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s Janus v. AFSCME<\/i> decision, which was briefed and argued by National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys.<\/p>\n

In 2016 lawyers for several state unions brought the case, now called West Virginia AFL-CIO, et al. v. Governor James C. Justice, et al.<\/i>, attempting to overturn the popular law. Polling consistently shows that Americans back Right to Work laws. A scientific survey also found that eighty percent of union members supported the Right to Work principle<\/a> that union membership and dues payment should be voluntary and not required as a condition of employment.<\/p>\n

Harper\u2019s brief responds to the legally dubious arguments that were made by union lawyers, and accepted by Judge Jennifer Bailey of the Kanawha County Circuit Court. Similar arguments to the union lawyers\u2019 primary arguments in this case for why the Right to Work protections for workers should be overturned have already been rejected by a Federal Court of Appeals and the Indiana Supreme Court when they were raised in cases involving Indiana\u2019s Right to Work law. Furthermore, the brief points out that the Kanawha County Circuit Court decision ignores nearly 70 years of legal precedent upholding the constitutionality of state Right to Work laws, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions.<\/p>\n

\u201cBig Labor bosses are waging this protracted legal battle to return The Mountain State to a time when millions of dollars in workers\u2019 money were forcibly shunted off to serve their own priorities,\u201d commented National Right to Work Foundation President Mark Mix. \u201cRight to Work laws simply put individual freedom back at the center of a state\u2019s labor laws, and all American workers deserve that freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

The National Right to Work Foundation has a long history of successfully defending Right to Work laws in state and federal court. In addition to West Virginia, Foundation staff attorneys have taken legal action to defend and enforce new Right to Work laws in Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Kentucky, all of which have passed Right to Work protections for employees since 2012.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year National Right to Work Foundation won a settlement for a West Virginia worker<\/a> who was illegally threatened by United Steelworkers after she resigned her membership, the first step towards exercising her rights under the Right to Work law. Foundation staff attorneys previously filed an amicus brief<\/a> with the West Virginia Supreme Court in 2017, on behalf of another pro-Right to Work Mountain State worker, which led the court to overturn an injunction by a lower court judge so the law could go into effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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