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Princeton, WV (May 18, 2010)<\/b> \u2013 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) District 1199 union officials have agreed to a statewide settlement after six ResCare group home employees filed several unfair labor practice charges against them.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe employees, with free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, challenged the SEIU District 1199 union\u2019s forced dues policy, which violated Foundation-won employee rights upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in its landmark decision in Communication Workers of America v. Beck (1988).\n<\/p>\n
\nIn Beck, the Court held that union officials cannot lawfully compel nonmembers to pay the part of union dues spent for non-bargaining union boss activities like political activism, lobbying, and member-only events. The employees also challenged the SEIU union officials\u2019 practice of requiring employees to object to paying full union dues multiple times in order to exercise their rights under Beck.\n<\/p>\n
\nUnder the settlement, SEIU District 1199 union bosses will mail notices to all ResCare employees in West Virginia detailing the employees\u2019 rights to object to full-dues-paying union membership. Further, the settlement requires SEIU District 1199 union bosses to allow ResCare employees in Mercer County, who were told by SEIU officials to join or be fired, to retroactively rescind their union membership and to receive refunds of their forced union dues.\n<\/p>\n
\nMeanwhile, National Right to Work Foundation attorneys and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regional office in Winston-Salem, North Carolina are scheduled to challenge the SEIU District 1199 union hierarchy\u2019s \u201cannual objection\u201d policy before an NLRB administrative law judge in June. The SEIU District 1199 \u201cannual objection\u201d policy is clearly designed to force workers into making full union dues payments against their will.\n<\/p>\n
\nFive NLRB administrative law judges around the country have held such union fee schemes unlawful.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThese six courageous workers have taken a stand for the rights of all ResCare employees in the Mountain State,\u201d said Patrick Semmens, Director of Legal Information at National Right to Work. \u201cFoundation attorneys will continue to pursue overturning the SEIU union bosses\u2019 illegal membership policy, but West Virginia needs to pass a state Right to Work law making union dues payment completely voluntary in order to end these kinds of compulsory unionism abuses.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
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Princeton, WV (May 18, 2010)<\/b> \u2013 Service Employees International Union (SEIU) District 1199 union officials have agreed to a statewide settlement after six ResCare group home employees filed several unfair labor practice charges against them.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe employees, with free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, challenged the SEIU District 1199 union\u2019s forced dues policy, which violated Foundation-won employee rights upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in its landmark decision in Communication Workers of America v. Beck (1988).\n<\/p>\n
\nIn Beck, the Court held that union officials cannot lawfully compel nonmembers to pay the part of union dues spent for non-bargaining union boss activities like political activism, lobbying, and member-only events. The employees also challenged the SEIU union officials\u2019 practice of requiring employees to object to paying full union dues multiple times in order to exercise their rights under Beck.<\/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-2878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n