{"id":800,"date":"2011-07-05T11:26:40","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T11:26:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T16:35:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:35:19","slug":"news-release-teamster-union-bosses-hit-with-federal-charges-for-having-coca-cola-worker-illegally-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/news-release-teamster-union-bosses-hit-with-federal-charges-for-having-coca-cola-worker-illegally-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"News Release: Teamster Union Bosses Hit with Federal Charges for Having Coca-Cola Worker Illegally Fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/newsrelease.png\" style=\"padding-left: 60px\" alt=\"News Release\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"48\" width=\"457\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2011\/07\/teamster-union-bosses-coca-cola-federal-charges-07052011\" title=Teamster Union Bosses Hit with Federal Charges for Having Coca-Cola Worker Illegally Fired\">Teamster Union Bosses Hit with Federal Charges for Having Coca-Cola Worker Illegally Fired<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Incident shows Pennsylvania\u2019s workers desperately need Right to Work protections<\/h3>\n<p><b>Houston, PA (July 5, 2011)<\/b> \u2013 With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, a former Coca-Cola employee has filed federal charges against a local Teamster union and the company for discrimination and illegally firing him from his job.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Smiesko of Saxonburg filed the federal charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regional office in Pittsburgh on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Teamster Local 585 union officials ordered Smiesko \u2013 who had refrained from full union membership and dues payments \u2013 to immediately pay full union dues for the previous three years along with additional union initiation fees without ever notifying him that he was being charged for their so-called \u00abrepresentation.\u00bb Union officials illegally threatened Smiesko with job termination if he did not pay.<\/p>\n<p>Smiesko refused, exercising his rights under the Foundation-won Supreme Court precedent in <i>Communication Workers v. Beck<\/i>, which allows workers to refrain from full-dues-paying union membership.  Teamster Local 585 union officials then demanded that Coca-Cola fire Smiesko and Coca-Cola complied with the union bosses&#8217; command.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/en\/press\/2011\/07\/teamster-union-bosses-coca-cola-federal-charges-07052011\">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\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"48\" width=\"457\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2011\/07\/teamster-union-bosses-coca-cola-federal-charges-07052011\" title=Teamster Union Bosses Hit with Federal Charges for Having Coca-Cola Worker Illegally Fired\">Teamster Union Bosses Hit with Federal Charges for Having Coca-Cola Worker Illegally Fired<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Incident shows Pennsylvania\u2019s workers desperately need Right to Work protections<\/h3>\n<p><b>Houston, PA (July 5, 2011)<\/b> \u2013 With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, a former Coca-Cola employee has filed federal charges against a local Teamster union and the company for discrimination and illegally firing him from his job.<\/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-800","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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