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Cleveland, Ohio (May 20, 2002)<\/b> \u2013 In response to religious discrimination charges brought by Ohio teacher Dennis Robey, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will prosecute the National Education Association (NEA), if the union does not stop forcing teachers to endure annually a burdensome and invasive process before respecting their religious objections to union affiliation. <\/p>\n

With the help of National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, Robey brought charges against the NEA and its local affiliates after they refused to honor his religious objection to supporting the union because it promotes pro-abortion, pro-homosexuality positions and constantly attempts to interfere with parental rights. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe NEA union\u2019s illegal scheme is intended to force teachers of faith to shut up and pay up,\u201d said Stefan Gleason<\/a>, Vice President of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. \u201cThe EEOC\u2019s action further underscores that the nation\u2019s largest teacher union is systematically persecuting people of faith.\u201d <\/p>\n

Robey began to make his religious objections known in 1995. During the 1999-2000 school year, union officials rebuffed his longstanding objection and demanded that every year he must describe, in detail, his deeply held religious views, fill out a lengthy and invasive form, and file it with the union. On the form, union officials asked probing personal questions about his relationship with God, his \u201creligious affiliation,\u201d and required him to obtain a signature from a \u201creligious official\u201d attesting to the validity of his beliefs. <\/p>\n

Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, union officials may not force any employee to financially support a union if doing so violates the employee\u2019s sincerely held religious beliefs. In order to accommodate the conflict between an employee\u2019s faith and a requirement to pay fees to a union he believes to be immoral, the law allows employees instead to donate that money to charity.<\/p>\n

The EEOC agreed with Foundation attorneys\u2019 arguments that the nationwide union policy unlawfully places an undue burden on teachers, and that teachers need only file a one-time objection to paying forced union dues. The union\u2019s illegal scheme is employed nationally against thousands of teachers whose sincerely held religious beliefs prevent them from supporting a union.<\/p>\n

Under the Commission\u2019s ruling, the NEA must stop the use of these practices or face further legal action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cleveland, Ohio (May 20, 2002) \u2013 In response to religious discrimination charges brought by Ohio teacher Dennis Robey, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will prosecute the National Education Association (NEA), if the union does not stop forcing teachers to endure annually a burdensome and invasive process before respecting their religious objections to union affiliation. 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