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\nPhoenix, AZ (December 23, 2009)<\/b> \u2013 With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, five employees from different Fry\u2019s Food Stores locations have filed federal charges challenging their employer\u2019s and a local union\u2019s efforts to block them from stopping the seizure of union dues from their paychecks.\n<\/p>\n
\nDisgusted with recent union strike threats, large numbers of employees withdrew from the union, but union officials are now retaliating by refusing to honor their legal rights and getting Fry\u2019s management to deduct and forward the union dues money anyway.\n<\/p>\n
\nShirley Jones of Mesa, Karen Medley and Elaine Brown of Apache Junction, and Kimberly Stewart and Kristy Dickenson of Queen Creek \u2013 acting for other similarly situated employees \u2013 filed federal unfair labor practice charges at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 99 union bosses and Fry\u2019s.\n<\/p>\n
\nIn the midst of a well-publicized UFCW Local 99 union-threatened strike in November 2009, the employees resigned from the UFCW union and revoked their dues deduction authorizations during a time in which the UFCW union did not have a contract at their workplaces. Under Arizona\u2019s popular Right to Work law no worker can be required to join or pay any money to a union, and under federal labor law, if there is no longer a bargaining agreement in effect between union officials and an employer, employees can revoke their dues deduction authorizations at any time.\n<\/p>\n
\nDues deduction authorizations are used by union officials to automatically withhold dues from employee paychecks. Despite the employees\u2019 best efforts to halt the dues seizures, Fry\u2019s continues to illegally collect from the employees union dues for the UFCW union hierarchy.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe charges will now be investigated by the NLRB regional director in Phoenix, who can prosecute the union officials and the company for violating the employees\u2019 legal rights.\n<\/p>\n
\n\u201cDespite repeated requests, UFCW Local 99 and company officials have ignored workers\u2019 attempts to exercise their right to stop paying union dues\u201d said Stefan Gleason, vice president of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cWe intend to make sure that UFCW operatives play by the rules and stop extracting union dues from workers who want nothing to do with this unaccountable union.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
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\nPhoenix, AZ (December 23, 2009)<\/b> \u2013 With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, five employees from different Fry\u2019s Food Stores locations have filed federal charges challenging their employer\u2019s and a local union\u2019s efforts to block them from stopping the seizure of union dues from their paychecks.\n<\/p>\n
\nDisgusted with recent union strike threats, large numbers of employees withdrew from the union, but union officials are now retaliating by refusing to honor their legal rights and getting Fry\u2019s management to deduct and forward the union dues money anyway.\n<\/p>\n
\nShirley Jones of Mesa, Karen Medley and Elaine Brown of Apache Junction, and Kimberly Stewart and Kristy Dickenson of Queen Creek \u2013 acting for other similarly situated employees \u2013 filed federal unfair labor practice charges at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 99 union bosses and Fry\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n