{"id":2335,"date":"2006-02-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:25:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:25:18","slug":"teacher-union-lawyers-lose-last-ditch-effort-to-block-full-investigation-over-use-of-union-dues-for-politics-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/teacher-union-lawyers-lose-last-ditch-effort-to-block-full-investigation-over-use-of-union-dues-for-politics-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Union Lawyers Lose Last-Ditch Effort to Block Full Investigation over Use of Union Dues for Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Knoxville, TN (February 3, 2006)<\/strong> \u2013 In a significant procedural victory, the Supreme Court of Tennessee has cleared the way for a circuit court trial in a case in which a Tennessee teacher is asserting that full union members have the right to withhold union dues spent on ideological activity without losing their right to vote on the collective bargaining agreements that bind them.<\/p>\n<p>With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, Dewey Esquinance filed suit against the Polk County Education Association (PCEA) and Tennessee Education Association (TEA) unions, affiliates of the National Education Association (NEA), in April 2003 in the Circuit Court of Polk County.  After the Court of Appeals of Tennessee agreed with arguments made by Foundation attorneys that the trial court improperly dismissed the lawsuit, the state\u2019s highest court rejected a union petition for review \u2013 clearing the way for a full investigation and trial.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Esquinance will be able to make his case in the Tennessee Circuit Court of Polk County that teachers statewide have the constitutional right to remain full union members and withhold dues spent on union political activities with which they disagree.<\/p>\n<p>Union officials currently require teachers to exercise their rights under Tennessee\u2019s Right to Work law to resign from union membership in order to stop the use of their dues money for objectionable political activities.  In doing so, however, those teachers are barred by union officials from voting on ratification of collective bargaining agreements that determine the terms of their employment, control sick bank donations, and affect access to teacher training.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis ruling shuts down teacher union officials\u2019 desperate, last-ditch attempt to prevent a full investigation into their practice of spending teachers\u2019 dues on politics,\u201d said <a href=\"mailto:shg@nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a>, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2002, Esquinance joined the PCEA union and began paying full union dues, even though he objected to the NEA union\u2019s political agenda.  When Esquinance notified union officials that he wanted to remain a full union member but only pay for union expenses related to collective bargaining, union officials informed him that his union membership was terminated and that there was no appeals process.<\/p>\n<p>Like many educators, Esquinance objects to numerous aspects of the union\u2019s agenda for religious and political reasons, including the NEA\u2019s stances promoting abortion, gun control, and special rights for homosexuals.  Every year, the NEA and its affiliates spend tens of millions of dollars in compulsory dues in support of political views and candidates that many teachers find objectionable.<\/p>\n<p>Esquinance is challenging union membership dues based on the rights established by the Foundation-won U.S. Supreme Court decision in <a href=\"\/foundation-won.htm#Abood\"><i>Abood v. Detroit Board of Education<\/i><\/a>.  Under <i>Abood<\/i> and subsequent rulings, employees have a constitutional right to refuse to pay for union non-collective bargaining activities, such as politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knoxville, TN (February 3, 2006) \u2013 In a significant procedural victory, the Supreme Court of Tennessee has cleared the way for a circuit court trial in a case in which a Tennessee teacher is asserting that full union members have the right to withhold union dues spent on ideological activity without losing their right to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Teacher Union Lawyers Lose Last-Ditch Effort to Block Full Investigation over Use of Union Dues for Politics - 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