Cincinnati, OH (January 21, 2011)<\/b> \u2013 A group of Cincinnati Public Schools employees today filed a federal lawsuit against a local union and the city school district for illegally confiscating union dues from their paychecks in violation of their constitutional rights.<\/p>\n
\nNational Right to Work Foundation attorneys, providing the employees with free legal aid, filed the suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.<\/p>\n
\nThe school district carpentry shop employees, who have exercised their right to refrain from formal union membership with the Greater Cincinnati Building & Construction Trades Council union (GCBCTC) and its affiliates, ask the federal court to protect their Right to Work Foundation-won rights upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Chicago Teachers Union v. Hudson.<\/i><\/p>\n
\nIn Hudson<\/i>, the Court, while still allowing the forced payment of certain union fees as a condition of employment, established procedural safeguards to ensure public employees are not compelled to subsidize union activities beyond what union officials can prove is spent on bargaining and contract administration. Union expenditures such as organizing and political activism cannot be legally charged to nonmember public-sector workers.<\/p>\n
\nThe Court also ruled union officials must provide public workers with an independently-audited financial breakdown of all forced-dues union expenditures.<\/p>\n
\nGCBCTC union officials are compelling the employees to pay union fees to keep their jobs while refusing to provide the financial breakdown Hudson<\/i> requires.<\/p>\n
\nThe employees are suing to obtain refunds of the amount of forced union dues payments illegally taken from their paychecks and to halt union bosses from further union fee collections until they comply with the workers\u2019 constitutional and civil rights to refrain from full-union-dues payments upheld by the United States Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cGCBCTC union bosses are using state law to take these workers\u2019 civil and constitutional rights to the woodshed\u201d said Patrick Semmens, National Right to Work Foundation legal information director. \u201cOhio desperately needs a Right to Work law making union affiliation and dues payments completely voluntary to prevent these types of forced unionism abuses from occurring.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\u201cOnly then will independent-minded employees have the solid foundation they need to take a stand for their rights.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cincinnati, OH (January 21, 2011)<\/b> \u2013 A group of Cincinnati Public Schools employees today filed a federal lawsuit against a local union and the city school district for illegally confiscating union dues from their paychecks in violation of their constitutional rights.<\/p>\n
\nNational Right to Work Foundation attorneys, providing the employees with free legal aid, filed the suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.<\/p>\n
\nThe school district carpentry shop employees, who have exercised their right to refrain from formal union membership with the Greater Cincinnati Building & Construction Trades Council union (GCBCTC) and its affiliates, ask the federal court to protect their Right to Work Foundation-won rights upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Chicago Teachers Union v. Hudson.<\/i><\/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-2922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n