{"id":2450,"date":"2004-08-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:26:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:26:49","slug":"national-worker-rights-advocate-formally-enters-nj-supreme-court-battle-to-protect-workers-from-union-abuse-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/national-worker-rights-advocate-formally-enters-nj-supreme-court-battle-to-protect-workers-from-union-abuse-0\/","title":{"rendered":"National Worker Rights Advocate Formally Enters NJ Supreme Court Battle to Protect Workers from Union Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Trenton, NJ (August 4, 2004)<\/b> \u2014 Defending the rights of non-union local government employees statewide, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation today filed arguments at the New Jersey Supreme Court on behalf of Hunterdon County workers attacking the constitutionality of a new state law \u2013 backed by Governor Jim McGreevey \u2013 forcing workers to pay dues to an unwanted union. <\/p>\n<p>A national legal aid organization, the Foundation filed its <i>amicus curiae<\/i>, or \u201cfriend of the court,\u201d brief in <i>Hunterdon County v. CWA, Local 1034<\/i> for Henry Wieczorek and other non-union Hunterdon County employees.  The brief challenges a decision by the Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC), taken pursuant to the new state law, ordering the county to seize compulsory union dues from all employees in the Communication Workers of America (CWA) Local 1034 bargaining unit.  In June, the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, ruled in favor of the PERC\u2019s order to seize compulsory dues.  That decision was subsequently appealed by the County. <\/p>\n<p>Foundation attorneys argue that there is no compelling state interest to justify PERC\u2019s forcing Hunterdon County to collect compulsory dues from non-union members when county officials have already rejected the requirement during the collective bargaining process.  In addition, Foundation attorneys charge that, if counties are forced to collect the fees, it will strip away safeguards that protect workers from having compulsory agency fees used to support union politics or other activities not directly related to collective bargaining.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cBig Labor wants to require the county government to be their collection agency and strong-arm workers into subsidizing a union that they do not support,\u201d said <a href=\"mailto:shg@www.nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a>, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cApparently experiencing difficulty persuading employees to join the union voluntarily, union officials are grabbing for the power to compel payment of dues as a job condition.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Until recently, New Jersey\u2019s county and municipal employees who refrained from union membership could not be compelled to pay so-called \u201cagency fees\u201d unless local government officials agreed to such a requirement through the collective bargaining process.  However, a statute signed by Governor McGreevey in 2002 gave union officials the power to utilize a new PERC procedure to force county governments to impose the requirement as a job condition.  <\/p>\n<p>In December 2002, in response to demands from CWA Local 1034, PERC ordered Hunterdon County to begin deducting \u201cagency fees\u201d from all non-union county government employees.  Seeking to defend its employees\u2019 freedom of association, Hunterdon County officials filed suit against the CWA union challenging the commission\u2019s order.  A ruling in favor of the County would strike down the McGreevey law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trenton, NJ (August 4, 2004) \u2014 Defending the rights of non-union local government employees statewide, the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation today filed arguments at the New Jersey Supreme Court on behalf of Hunterdon County workers attacking the constitutionality of a new state law \u2013 backed by Governor Jim McGreevey \u2013 forcing workers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>National Worker Rights Advocate Formally Enters NJ Supreme Court Battle to Protect Workers from Union Abuse - 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