Flint, MI (November 9, 2010)<\/b> \u2013 A group of eight Securitas Security Services employees filed federal charges against a local union and their employer earlier this week for illegally forcing union monopoly representation and mandatory union fees on the employees without a showing of majority support for the union.<\/p>\n
\nWith free legal aid from the National Right to Work Foundation, the employees \u2013 who are employed by Securitas in Grand Blanc \u2013 recently learned that their employer has recognized the Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) union hierarchy as their monopoly bargaining agent. The employees were unaware of any union organizing campaign occurring in their workplace and a vote never took place.<\/p>\n
\nFederal labor law requires that union officials must show majority support within a workplace before company officials can recognize the union.<\/p>\n
\nThe employees were forced to sign union dues deduction authorizations \u2013 used by union officials to automatically withhold dues from employee paychecks \u2013 and are currently paying dues to the union in order to keep their jobs.<\/p>\n
\nThe NLRB regional office in Detroit will now investigate the charges and decide whether to issue a formal complaint and prosecute the union and company.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cMichigan desperately needs a Right to Work law to prevent union organizing abuses such as this woeful act of collusion between union and company officials,\u201d said Patrick Semmens, legal information director of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cFolks trying to make a living should not be conscripted and forced to pay tribute to a union in order to get or keep a job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Flint, MI (November 9, 2010)<\/b> \u2013 A group of eight Securitas Security Services employees filed federal charges against a local union and their employer earlier this week for illegally forcing union monopoly representation and mandatory union fees on the employees without a showing of majority support for the union.<\/p>\n
\nWith free legal aid from the National Right to Work Foundation, the employees \u2013 who are employed by Securitas in Grand Blanc \u2013 recently learned that their employer has recognized the Security, Police, and Fire Professionals of America (SPFPA) union hierarchy as their monopoly bargaining agent. The employees were unaware of any union organizing campaign occurring in their workplace and a vote never took place.<\/p>\n
\nFederal labor law requires that union officials must show majority support within a workplace before company officials can recognize the union.<\/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-2915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n