{"id":416,"date":"2008-12-17T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:14:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:14:45","slug":"washington-state-appeals-court-upholds-teachers-right-to-restitution-for-dues-illegally-spent-by-wea-union-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/washington-state-appeals-court-upholds-teachers-right-to-restitution-for-dues-illegally-spent-by-wea-union-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington State Appeals Court Upholds Teachers\u2019 Right to Restitution for Dues Illegally Spent By WEA Union Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/newsrelease.png\" alt=\"News Release\" border=\"0\" height=\"48\" width=\"457\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2008\/12\/wa-state-appeals\" title=\"Washington State Appeals Court Upholds Teachers\u2019 Right to Restitution for Dues Illegally Spent By WEA Union Officials\">Washington State Appeals Court Upholds Teachers\u2019 Right to Restitution for Dues Illegally Spent By WEA Union Officials<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">After securing U.S. Supreme Court victory, National Right to Work attorneys pick up the pieces of an otherwise impotent campaign finance regulation<\/h3>\n<p>\n<b>Seattle, WA (December 17, 2008)<\/b> \u2014 A recent decision by a Washington State Court of Appeals, Division 2, has ruled union officials can be held liable for illegally spending teachers\u2019 forced union dues under a now-effectively defunct campaign finance regulation.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling means that thousands of Washington State teachers may receive restitution for the amount Washington Education Association (WEA) union officials illegally docked their paychecks to pay for union political expenditures.  The ineffective campaign finance law at issue had been adopted in 1992 and has since been voided by the Washington State Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>The teachers are receiving free legal aid from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys.  In 2007, Foundation attorneys successfully brought the Davenport v. WEA case to the U.S. Supreme Court, which overturned an earlier Washington State Supreme Court decision using the campaign finance law to undermine the First Amendment.  The state appeals court ruled Friday on a number of issues, including upholding the teachers\u2019 tort claim for restitution and approving the certification of thousands of employees as a class.<\/p>\n<p>Before it was gutted by amendment in 2007, the Washington law had required union officials to obtain the prior consent of nonunion public employees before spending their mandatory union dues on a small fraction of what the union actually spends on politics.  According to an amicus brief filed by the Evergreen Freedom Foundation, the amount of political expenditures actually covered by the law was \u201cminiscule\u2026 less than one quarter of one percent of the WEA\u2019s total expenditures.\u201d  However, in striking down the law, the state Supreme Court had erroneously found a constitutional \u201cright\u201d for union officials to spend the money of non-union employees who are compelled to pay union dues as a condition of employment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(<a href=\"\/en\/press\/2008\/12\/wa-state-appeals\">Continue reading this news release&#8230;<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/newsrelease.png\" alt=\"News Release\" border=\"0\" height=\"48\" width=\"457\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2008\/12\/wa-state-appeals\" title=\"Washington State Appeals Court Upholds Teachers\u2019 Right to Restitution for Dues Illegally Spent By WEA Union Officials\">Washington State Appeals Court Upholds Teachers\u2019 Right to Restitution for Dues Illegally Spent By WEA Union Officials<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">After securing U.S. Supreme Court victory, National Right to Work attorneys pick up the pieces of an otherwise impotent campaign finance regulation<\/h3>\n<p>\n<b>Seattle, WA (December 17, 2008)<\/b> \u2014 A recent decision by a Washington State Court of Appeals, Division 2, has ruled union officials can be held liable for illegally spending teachers\u2019 forced union dues under a now-effectively defunct campaign finance regulation.<\/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-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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