{"id":2471,"date":"2004-04-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:26:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:26:54","slug":"union-waffles-but-continues-retaliation-against-non-striking-grocery-workers-with-unlawful-strike-fines-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/union-waffles-but-continues-retaliation-against-non-striking-grocery-workers-with-unlawful-strike-fines-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Waffles, But Continues Retaliation Against Non-Striking Grocery Workers With Unlawful Strike Fines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Los Angeles, Calif.  (April 15, 2004)<\/b> \u2013 Federal charges filed by several employees of Albertson\u2019s grocery chain who face retaliatory fines for refusal to engage in illegal \u201csympathy strike\u201d activity have forced union officials to waffle.  Nevertheless, retaliation continues against many workers that refused to obey the illegal strike order.<\/p>\n<p> Teamsters Local 952 union officials have been socking employees with confiscatory fines \u2013$1,600 per employee \u2013 simply for the act of following the union\u2019s own \u201cno strike\u201d contract with Albertson\u2019s.  The targeted employees had simply continued to report to work during the recent statewide grocery strike ordered against Albertson\u2019s, Vons, and Ralphs by the United Food and Commercial Workers union.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys, Juan Saldana and several other Albertson\u2019s distribution center employees filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) after Teamsters union officials imposed $1,600 fines for refusal to abandon their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>After the charges were filed, union officials dropped the discipline for some employees \u2013 but then inexplicably reinstated the fines.  Other employees are seeing their fines dropped as a result of the charges.<\/p>\n<p>Saldana and his coworkers allege that Teamsters Local 952 officials unlawfully failed to inform workers of their rights to refrain from formal union membership and to object to paying for the union\u2019s nonrepresentational activities, such as electoral politics.  The charges state that union officials also misled workers by telling them they had to sign automatic dues deduction cards, pay full union dues, and remain full members as a condition of employment.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Teamsters union officials told Saldana that they would \u201chave his union card pulled\u201d and that he would be fired if he refused to violate the union\u2019s own \u201cno-strike\u201d policy, and strike against his employer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeamsters union officials have been waging an ugly and illegal campaign of retaliation against workers who decided to honor their commitments to their families and their employer by refusing to walk off the job,\u201d said <a href=\"mailto:shg@nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a>, vice president of the National Right to Work Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2003, Saldana and his coworkers learned from sources independent of the union of their rights to refrain from formal union membership and be forced to pay no more than the union\u2019s proven collective bargaining costs.  Once the workers resigned their formal memberships, union officials again misled them by informing the workers that their resignations would have to be renewed annually.<\/p>\n<p>The actions of Teamsters union officials violated worker protections recognized in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in <a href=\"\/foundation-won.htm#Beck\"><i>Communications Workers v. Beck<\/i><\/a>, a case argued and won by Foundation attorneys.  Under the <i>Beck<\/i> ruling, workers may not be compelled to pay dues beyond the union\u2019s proven collective bargaining costs, and they are entitled to an independent audit of union expenditures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, Calif. (April 15, 2004) \u2013 Federal charges filed by several employees of Albertson\u2019s grocery chain who face retaliatory fines for refusal to engage in illegal \u201csympathy strike\u201d activity have forced union officials to waffle. Nevertheless, retaliation continues against many workers that refused to obey the illegal strike order. Teamsters Local 952 union officials [&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-2471","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>Union Waffles, But Continues Retaliation Against Non-Striking Grocery Workers With Unlawful Strike Fines - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/news\/union-waffles-but-continues-retaliation-against-non-striking-grocery-workers-with-unlawful-strike-fines-0\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Union Waffles, But Continues Retaliation Against Non-Striking Grocery Workers With Unlawful Strike Fines - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Los Angeles, Calif. 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