{"id":696,"date":"2010-05-21T11:12:36","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T11:12:36","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:08:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:08:11","slug":"government-union-bosses-face-federal-suit-for-illegal-forced-dues-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/government-union-bosses-face-federal-suit-for-illegal-forced-dues-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Union Bosses Face Federal Suit for Illegal Forced Dues Scheme"},"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\/2010\/05\/government-union-bosses-face-federal-suit-05212010\" title=\"Government Union Bosses Face Federal Suit for Illegal Forced Dues Scheme\">Government Union Bosses Face Federal Suit for Illegal Forced Dues Scheme<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Right to Work Foundation attorneys challenge union hierarchy for violating employees\u2019 constitutional rights<\/h3>\n<p><b>Philadelphia, PA (May 21, 2010)<\/b> \u2013 Eight public employees have filed a federal lawsuit against a local union and the Borough of Ephrata for illegally confiscating union dues payments from their paychecks without following federal requirements.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNational Right to Work Foundation attorneys, providing the eight employees with free legal aid, filed the suit today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe borough employees, who have exercised their right to refrain from formal union membership with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 1600 union, are asking the court to protect their Right to Work Foundation-won rights upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in <i>Abood v. Detroit Board of Education<\/i> (1977).  The Court ruled in <i>Abood<\/i> that nonmember public employees can be forced to pay some union dues, but not the part used to pay for union politics and other union activities.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIBEW Local 1600 union officials are compelling the employees into paying a whopping 99.51 percent of full union membership dues.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/en\/press\/2010\/05\/government-union-bosses-face-federal-suit-05212010\">Click here to read the whole 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\/2010\/05\/government-union-bosses-face-federal-suit-05212010\" title=\"Government Union Bosses Face Federal Suit for Illegal Forced Dues Scheme\">Government Union Bosses Face Federal Suit for Illegal Forced Dues Scheme<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Right to Work Foundation attorneys challenge union hierarchy for violating employees\u2019 constitutional rights<\/h3>\n<p><b>Philadelphia, PA (May 21, 2010)<\/b> \u2013 Eight public employees have filed a federal lawsuit against a local union and the Borough of Ephrata for illegally confiscating union dues payments from their paychecks without following federal requirements.<\/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-696","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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