{"id":2484,"date":"2004-02-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:26:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:26:55","slug":"feds-to-prosecute-western-pennsylvania-teamsters-union-for-violating-employee-rights-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/feds-to-prosecute-western-pennsylvania-teamsters-union-for-violating-employee-rights-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds to Prosecute Western Pennsylvania Teamsters Union for Violating Employee Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uniontown, Pa. (February 27, 2004) \u2014 Responding to unfair labor practice charges brought by a Uniontown hospital employee, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will prosecute Teamsters Union Local 491 for unlawful threats and coercion directed against dissenting employees.<\/p>\n<p> Receiving free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Patricia Demaske filed the original charges in August 2001 against union officials for unlawfully threatening employees with termination for failure to pay full union dues, mandating employees sign dues check-off authorizations, and failing to provide workers with an independent audit of union expenditures.  The NLRB has set a trial date of April 27, 2004.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cUnfortunately, this is not an isolated incident.  As union officials are frantic to amass the resources to play politics in this year\u2019s elections, employees are being told to shut up and pay up,\u201d said <a href=\"mailto:shg@nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a>, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cNo one should be forced to pay dues to a union, especially when its officials continually abuse that federally granted special privilege.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In May 2001, Teamsters Local 491 officials entered into a collective bargaining agreement that required all workers in the bargaining unit to pay union dues as a condition of employment.  After Demaske expressed her desire to pay dues to cover only proven collective bargaining costs, Teamsters union officials threatened to have fired all employees who failed to pay full dues via a mandatory payroll deduction. Union officials also maintained an illegal objection policy under which workers could not resign their formal union memberships and object to payment of full union dues in concert with coworkers.<\/p>\n<p>The actions of Teamsters union officials violated workers\u2019 rights outlined in the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s <a href=\"\/foundation-won.htm#Beck\"><i>Communications Workers v. Beck<\/i><\/a> decision. Under <i>Beck<\/i>, a case argued and won by Foundation attorneys, workers may not only resign from formal union membership at any time, but also may only be legally forced to pay for the union\u2019s proven collective bargaining costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, as long as Pennsylvania workers labor under a system of compulsory unionism, these sorts of abuses will continue to plague workers across the state,\u201d said Gleason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uniontown, Pa. (February 27, 2004) \u2014 Responding to unfair labor practice charges brought by a Uniontown hospital employee, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will prosecute Teamsters Union Local 491 for unlawful threats and coercion directed against dissenting employees. Receiving free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Patricia Demaske filed [&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-2484","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>Feds to Prosecute Western Pennsylvania Teamsters Union for Violating Employee Rights - 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\/feds-to-prosecute-western-pennsylvania-teamsters-union-for-violating-employee-rights-0\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Feds to Prosecute Western Pennsylvania Teamsters Union for Violating Employee Rights - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Uniontown, Pa. 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