{"id":769,"date":"2011-03-16T16:53:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T16:53:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:06:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:06:35","slug":"wisconsin-afscme-union-bosses-face-federal-charges-for-illegally-seizing-forced-dues-for-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/wisconsin-afscme-union-bosses-face-federal-charges-for-illegally-seizing-forced-dues-for-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin AFSCME Union Bosses Face Federal Charges for Illegally Seizing Forced Dues for Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/newsrelease.png\" style=\"padding-left: 60px\" alt=\"News Release\" width=\"457\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" height=\"48\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2011\/03\/wisconsin-afscme-beck-03162011\" title=\"Wisconsin AFSCME Union Bosses Face Federal Charges for Illegally Seizing Forced Dues for Politics\">Wisconsin AFSCME Union Bosses Face Federal Charges for Illegally Seizing Forced Dues for Politics<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Wisconsin needs Right to Work law to protect workers from forced unionism abuses<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Milwaukee, WI (March 16, 2011)<\/b> \u2013 A U.S. Bank customer service and support employee has filed federal charges against a local union after local union officials illegally attempted to force him and his colleagues into full-dues-paying union membership.<\/p>\n<p>\nPeter Quinones of Milwaukee filed the charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Tuesday with free legal assistance from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys.<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 777 union officials were granted monopoly bargaining privileges over approximately 300 U.S. Bank employees, Quinones sent a letter to union officials stating that he was exercising his right under National Right to Work Foundation-won Supreme Court precedent in <i>Communication Workers v. Beck<\/i> to refrain from full dues paying union membership.<\/p>\n<p>\nBecause Wisconsin is a forced unionism state, workers who refrain from formal union membership can still be forced to pay a certain amount of union dues, but cannot be compelled to pay the portion of union dues used for the union\u2019s political, lobbying, and member-only activities.<\/p>\n<p>\nDespite his letter, AFSCME Local 777 union officials continued to extract full union dues from his paycheck.  After Quinones filed an unfair labor practice charge, union officials still refused to honor his request to exercise his legal rights.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/en\/press\/2011\/03\/wisconsin-afscme-beck-03162011\">Read the entire release here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/newsrelease.png\" style=\"padding-left: 60px\" alt=\"News Release\" width=\"457\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" height=\"48\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2011\/03\/wisconsin-afscme-beck-03162011\" title=\"Wisconsin AFSCME Union Bosses Face Federal Charges for Illegally Seizing Forced Dues for Politics\">Wisconsin AFSCME Union Bosses Face Federal Charges for Illegally Seizing Forced Dues for Politics<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Wisconsin needs Right to Work law to protect workers from forced unionism abuses<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Milwaukee, WI (March 16, 2011)<\/b> \u2013 A U.S. Bank customer service and support employee has filed federal charges against a local union after local union officials illegally attempted to force him and his colleagues into full-dues-paying union membership.<\/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-769","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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