{"id":2645,"date":"2002-05-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:28:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:28:33","slug":"textile-worker-hits-needletrades-union-with-unfair-labor-practice-charges-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/textile-worker-hits-needletrades-union-with-unfair-labor-practice-charges-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Textile Worker Hits Needletrades Union with Unfair Labor Practice Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Smithfield, Pa. (May 17, 2002)<\/b> \u2014 With the help of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, a Berkley Medical Resources employee, Donna Dodson, today filed charges against a needletrades union for illegally forcing her to pay full union dues, including dues spent for politics.<\/p>\n<p>Dodson, a non-union member, filed the unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE) Local 131A. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn an effort to amass a political warchest, the union\u2019s officials are demanding that workers 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. <\/p>\n<p>Since Dodson began working for Berkley Medical Resources in September 2001, union officials have deducted full union dues from her paycheck without her authorization, even though she is not a union member.  As part of her case Dodson is seeking a breakdown of how the agency fee is calculated, and a refund of dues money that was seized to pay for activities not directly related to collective bargaining. <\/p>\n<p>The actions of UNITE officials violated the workers\u2019 rights established by the U.S. Supreme Court <a href=\"\/foundation-won.htm#Beck\"><i>Communications Workers v. Beck<\/i><\/a> decision.  Under <i>Beck<\/i>, a case that Foundation attorneys argued and won, workers who are not protected by a Right to Work law may resign from formal union membership and halt and reclaim the portion of forced union dues spent on politics and other activities unrelated to collective bargaining. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, this not an isolated incident. Union bosses routinely break the law to try and shake down workers to pay for their political activities,\u201d stated Gleason. <\/p>\n<p>UNITE is one of the most politically active unions in the country.  Every year, union officials seize millions of dollars in compulsory dues to support candidates and causes that many of their members find objectionable.  Polls have consistently shown that a majority of rank-and-file union members object to having their dues spent for political activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smithfield, Pa. (May 17, 2002) \u2014 With the help of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, a Berkley Medical Resources employee, Donna Dodson, today filed charges against a needletrades union for illegally forcing her to pay full union dues, including dues spent for politics. 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