{"id":620,"date":"2009-12-16T11:44:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T11:44:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:11:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:11:17","slug":"employees-slap-teamster-union-officials-with-federal-charges-over-illegal-forced-dues-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/employees-slap-teamster-union-officials-with-federal-charges-over-illegal-forced-dues-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Employees Slap Teamster Union Officials with Federal Charges over Illegal Forced Dues Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/newsrelease.png\" style=\"padding-left: 60px\" alt=\"News Release\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" width=\"457\" height=\"48\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2009\/12\/employees-slap-teamster-union-offici\" title=\"Employees Slap Teamster Union Officials with Federal Charges over Illegal Forced Dues Policy\">Employees Slap Teamster Union Officials with Federal Charges over Illegal Forced Dues Policy<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Union officials fail to provide adequate disclosure to nonunion employees, then threaten the workers with termination<\/h3>\n<p>\n<b>Philadelphia, PA and Baltimore, MD (December 16, 2009)<\/b> \u2013 With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, four workers forced to pay fees to a regional Teamsters union council have filed unfair labor practice charges against the union for providing inadequate financial disclosure and illegally threatening to have workers who didn\u2019t pay fired.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nUnder the Foundation-won Supreme Court precedent <i>Communication Workers v. Beck<\/i>, nonmember employees can be forced to pay certain union dues as a condition of employment, but they cannot be compelled to pay for politics, lobbying, and member-only events. Union officials are also legally obligated to inform workers of these rights and to provide workers with an independently verified audit of chargeable and non-chargeable expenses.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nGraphic Communications Conference\/International Brotherhood of Teamsters, District Council 9, union bosses have exclusive representation power over employees at Perfecseal, Inc. in Philadelphia, PA, and Standard Register in Salisbury, MD, but have not provided nonmember employees with the level of disclosure <i>Beck<\/i> requires. Nonmembers\u2019 \u201cagency fees\u201d paid to the union council have increased by a greater percentage than corresponding increases in dues amounts for union members, and union bosses are demanding that the nonmembers pay the increased fees or be fired without providing an adequate breakdown of expenditures.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2009\/12\/employees-slap-teamster-union-offici\">Click here to read the full release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/newsrelease.png\" style=\"padding-left: 60px\" alt=\"News Release\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" width=\"457\" height=\"48\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2009\/12\/employees-slap-teamster-union-offici\" title=\"Employees Slap Teamster Union Officials with Federal Charges over Illegal Forced Dues Policy\">Employees Slap Teamster Union Officials with Federal Charges over Illegal Forced Dues Policy<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Union officials fail to provide adequate disclosure to nonunion employees, then threaten the workers with termination<\/h3>\n<p>\n<b>Philadelphia, PA and Baltimore, MD (December 16, 2009)<\/b> \u2013 With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, four workers forced to pay fees to a regional Teamsters union council have filed unfair labor practice charges against the union for providing inadequate financial disclosure and illegally threatening to have workers who didn\u2019t pay fired.<\/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-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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