{"id":2712,"date":"2001-06-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-06-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:29:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:29:18","slug":"culligan-worker-sues-teamsters-union-for-threatening-to-have-him-fired-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/culligan-worker-sues-teamsters-union-for-threatening-to-have-him-fired-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Culligan Worker Sues Teamsters Union for Threatening to Have Him Fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>ST. LOUIS, Mo. (June 11, 2001)<\/b> &#8212; With assistance from a national legal aid foundation, a Culligan Water Conditioning employee today filed federal charges against the Saint Louis-based Teamsters Local 610.  The union&#8217;s officials have been illegally attempting to have the worker fired from his job for withholding union dues spent on politics and other activities unrelated to collective bargaining.<\/p>\n<p>National Right to Work Foundation attorneys filed the unfair labor practice charges on behalf of Pete Lenhardt with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) charging that union officials illegally demanded that Culligan discharge Lenhardt for not paying full union dues, even though he became a nonmember of the union.  <\/p>\n<p>The union&#8217;s threats and demands violated the Foundation-won U.S. Supreme Court <a href=\"\/foundation-won.htm#Beck\"><i>Communications Workers v. Beck<\/i><\/a> decision, which holds that workers may resign from union membership and pay only for the union&#8217;s proven collective bargaining costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abTeamsters union officials must be held to account for bullying employees who do not support the union,\u00bb said <a href=\"mailto:rlw@nrtw.org\">Randy Wanke<\/a>, Director of Legal Information for the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, a charitable organization that provides free legal aid to victims of forced unionism abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Before ordering his termination, Teamsters Local 610 officials had been unlawfully seizing full union dues from Lenhardt and other Culligan employees and demanding so-called \u00abinitiation fees\u00bb equal to the full amount paid by union members without notifying employees of their right to object to union membership and the payment of full dues.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the Foundation-filed charge, Culligan notified Lenhardt that they would not dismiss him while his charge was before the NLRB.  Foundation attorneys are also demanding that the union notify all bargaining unit employees of their rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LOUIS, Mo. (June 11, 2001) &#8212; With assistance from a national legal aid foundation, a Culligan Water Conditioning employee today filed federal charges against the Saint Louis-based Teamsters Local 610. 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