Los Angeles, CA (August 9, 2010)<\/b> \u2013 Three employees at the Carson Boeing plant have filed federal charges against the United Auto Worker (UAW) union in response to local union officials\u2019 efforts to illegally punish them for exercising their rights to resign from formal union membership.\n<\/p>\n
\nBefore working during a UAW Local 148-instigated strike, the three employees exercised their right, upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Pattern Makers v. NLRB<\/i> (1985), to resign from formal, full dues-paying union membership.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe UAW Local 148 union hierarchy began internal union disciplinary procedures against the nonmember employees for refusing to abandon their jobs despite receiving their resignation letters before the union boss-ordered strike. Union officials have no legal power to punish nonmember employees for honoring their commitments to their employer as long as they first resigned their union membership.\n<\/p>\n
\nFoundation attorneys have represented independent-minded employees across the country who suffered from union boss retaliation for refusing to abandon their jobs during union boss-ordered strikes. In some cases, nonmember employees have experienced sham disciplinary proceedings and even confiscatory fines to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.\n<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIn these tough economic times, it is unconscionable for UAW union bosses to retaliate against nonmember workers for providing for their families,\u201d said Patrick Semmens, legal information director of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cBoeing employees who exercise their long-recognized right to resign from union membership at any time should be allowed to make a living without the fear of harassment and intimidation for not toeing the union boss line.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\nThe NLRB regional office will now investigate the charges and decide whether to issue a formal complaint and prosecute the union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Los Angeles, CA (August 9, 2010)<\/b> \u2013 Three employees at the Carson Boeing plant have filed federal charges against the United Auto Worker (UAW) union in response to local union officials\u2019 efforts to illegally punish them for exercising their rights to resign from formal union membership.\n<\/p>\n
\nBefore working during a UAW Local 148-instigated strike, the three employees exercised their right, upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Pattern Makers v. NLRB<\/i> (1985), to resign from formal, full dues-paying union membership.\n<\/p>\n
\nThe UAW Local 148 union hierarchy began internal union disciplinary procedures against the nonmember employees for refusing to abandon their jobs despite receiving their resignation letters before the union boss-ordered strike. Union officials have no legal power to punish nonmember employees for honoring their commitments to their employer as long as they first resigned their union membership.<\/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-2898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n