{"id":2649,"date":"2002-05-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:28:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:28:48","slug":"court-will-allow-public-employees-to-challenge-constitutionality-of-union-monopoly-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/court-will-allow-public-employees-to-challenge-constitutionality-of-union-monopoly-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Will Allow Public Employees to Challenge Constitutionality of Union Monopoly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Salt Lake City, Utah (May 3, 2002)<\/b>  \u2014 Utah\u2019s Third District Court has rejected union lawyers\u2019 attempts to dismiss a counter suit, brought by employees represented by National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, which calls into question the constitutionality of the fundamental union privilege known as monopoly bargaining.<\/p>\n<p>In his ruling issued this week, Judge Stephen L. Henriod will also allow the employees to defend the constitutionality of Utah\u2019s Voluntary Contributions Act (VCA) \u2013 a regulation that intends to give union members the right to withhold union dues spent for political activities.  If the court refuses to uphold the VCA as constitutional, the court will consider the employees alternative argument that monopoly bargaining power \u2013 held in many locales by union officials of the Utah Public Employees\u2019 Association (UPEA) and Utah Education Association (UEA) \u2013 is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Utah has a highly popular and effective Right to Work law that enables nonunion employees to pay no dues whatsoever to an unwanted union, the still-intact monopoly bargaining privilege forces employees to accept the rigid terms of \u201cone size fits all\u201d union-brokered contracts \u2013 contracts that tend to punish the best and most productive employees.<\/p>\n<p>Union monopoly bargaining bars all employees \u2013 even union objectors \u2013 from individually negotiating over the terms of their own employment.  And using their monopoly bargaining privilege, union officials refuse to allow non-union members any input into workplace issues that directly affect them. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMonopoly bargaining often leaves employees who don\u2019t support the union\u2019s ideological agenda with an intolerable choice: Join the unwanted union and pay for its politics or give up their workplace voice,\u201d said <a href=\"mailto:shg@nrtw.org\">Stefan Gleason<\/a>, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>National Right to Work Foundation attorneys filed to intervene in this case on behalf of union members who oppose their unions\u2019 politicking.  Foundation attorneys argue that, if Big Labor lawyers succeed in overturning the VCA as an unconstitutional interference into private union matters, then monopoly bargaining must also be declared unconstitutional for all Utah\u2019s government employees because of its inherent infringements on their rights to free speech and association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salt Lake City, Utah (May 3, 2002) \u2014 Utah\u2019s Third District Court has rejected union lawyers\u2019 attempts to dismiss a counter suit, brought by employees represented by National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, which calls into question the constitutionality of the fundamental union privilege known as monopoly bargaining. 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