{"id":2733,"date":"2001-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-01-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:29:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:29:19","slug":"bakersfield-teachers-hit-state-s-teacher-union-with-civil-rights-lawsuit-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/bakersfield-teachers-hit-state-s-teacher-union-with-civil-rights-lawsuit-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakersfield Teachers Hit State\u2019s Teacher Union with Civil Rights Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><B>Fresno, Calif. (January 9, 2001)<\/B> &#8212; Four Bakersfield teachers today filed a federal lawsuit to strike down the California Teachers Association (CTA) union\u2019s statewide policy of seizing forced union dues from teachers\u2019 paychecks that are funneled into questionable and undisclosed union activities, including politics. <\/p>\n<p>The teachers charge that the CTA union\u2019s policy illegally directs local affiliates statewide to seize union dues without first providing an independently audited financial disclosure. <\/p>\n<p>The teachers filed the lawsuit, <I>Lakin v. CTA<\/I>, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California against the CTA union, its Kern High Faculty Association union affiliate, and Kern High School District (for enforcing the illegal collection of dues).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCTA union officials devised this statewide scheme to force California\u2019s teachers to fund their massive political operation,\u201d said <A HREF=\"MAILTO:RLW@NRTW.ORG\">Randy Wanke<\/A>, Director of Legal Information for the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which is providing free legal aid to the teachers. <\/p>\n<p>Under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, as articulated in the Foundation-won Supreme Court decision in <A HREF=\"\/foundation-won.htm#Hudson\"><i>Chicago Teachers Union v. Hudson<\/i><\/a>, union officials must first provide independently audited disclosure of their books and prove that forced union dues are not spent on non-bargaining activities like politics. <\/p>\n<p>Using CTA union procedures, hundreds of CTA-affiliated local unions are intentionally circumventing the constitutional requirements for disclosure by claiming that the percentage of the local union activities tied to collective bargaining could be arbitrarily \u201cpresumed\u201d to be equivalent to the percentage reported on the CTA union\u2019s financial disclosure. <\/p>\n<p>Under two previous Foundation-won federal court rulings, <i>Sheffield v. CTA<\/i> and <i>Foster v. CTA<\/i>, there is absolutely no debate that this \u201clocal presumption\u201d scheme is unconstitutional. However, the state\u2019s largest union continues to use it. In this lawsuit, Foundation attorneys seek to have the CTA union\u2019s statewide \u201clocal presumption\u201d procedures declared unconstitutional; enjoin the CTA union from directing local affiliates to use those procedures; and enjoin the Kern High Faculty Association union from seizing union dues using those procedures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fresno, Calif. (January 9, 2001) &#8212; Four Bakersfield teachers today filed a federal lawsuit to strike down the California Teachers Association (CTA) union\u2019s statewide policy of seizing forced union dues from teachers\u2019 paychecks that are funneled into questionable and undisclosed union activities, including politics. 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