Kissimmee, FL (January 19, 2012) \u2013 With the help of National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, an Osceola Regional Medical Center employee has filed federal unfair labor practice charges against 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East for refusing to allow him to resign from the union. <\/p>\n
On December 9, 2011, Eduardo Lopez sent SEIU officials a letter resigning his union membership. Despite the fact that employees have the constitutionally protected right to resign from a union at any time, SEIU officials rejected Lopez\u2019s request on December 20.<\/p>\n
Moreover, the union\u2019s official policy requires any employee who wishes to stop paying union dues to revoke his or her dues authorization via certified mail. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a federal agency responsible for administering private sector labor law, has repeatedly ruled that such policies are unlawful. <\/p>\n
According to Foundation attorneys, the SEIU\u2019s convoluted resignation policy conforms to a pattern of union obstructionism aimed at deterring independent-minded employees from exercising their rights to resign from union membership and opt out of paying union dues. In November 2011, for example, a health care practitioner at the Sutter Roseville Medical Center in California reached a favorable settlement with SEIU United Healthcare Workers West after union officials impeded nonunion employees\u2019 efforts to leave the union and opt out of full union dues. <\/p>\n
\u201cUnion bosses often resort to Byzantine resignation procedures to discourage workers from leaving the union and opting out of union dues,\u201d said Patrick Semmens, legal information director for the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cThe NLRB should strike down these obstructionist policies immediately to ensure that employees like Eduardo Lopez aren\u2019t forced to remain union members against their will.\u201d <\/p>\n
Under Florida\u2019s popular Right to Work law, nonunion employees cannot be forced to pay dues or fees to a union as a condition of employment. \u201cThis illegal scheme is nothing more than an attempt by union bosses to violate the Right to Work principle, which holds that union membership and dues payment should be completely voluntary,\u201d concluded Semmens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kissimmee, FL (January 19, 2012) \u2013 With the help of National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, an Osceola Regional Medical Center employee has filed federal unfair labor practice charges against 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East for refusing to allow him to resign from the union. <\/p>\n
On December 9, 2011, Eduardo Lopez sent SEIU officials a letter resigning his union membership. Despite the fact that employees have the constitutionally protected right to resign from a union at any time, SEIU officials rejected Lopez\u2019s request on December 20.<\/p>\n
Moreover, the union\u2019s official policy requires any employee who wishes to stop paying union dues to revoke his or her dues authorization via certified mail. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a federal agency responsible for administering private sector labor law, has repeatedly ruled that such policies are unlawful. <\/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-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n