{"id":804,"date":"2011-08-03T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T16:35:17","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:35:17","slug":"news-release-civil-servants-slap-government-union-bosses-with-second-federal-suit-for-illegal-forced-dues-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/news-release-civil-servants-slap-government-union-bosses-with-second-federal-suit-for-illegal-forced-dues-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"News Release: Civil Servants Slap Government Union Bosses With Second 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=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"48\" width=\"457\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2011\/08\/civil-servants-federal-lawsuit-080320111\" title=Civil Servants Slap Government Union Bosses With Second Federal Suit for Illegal Forced Dues Scheme\">Civil Servants Slap Government Union Bosses With Second 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 repeatedly flaunting employees\u2019 constitutional rights<\/h3>\n<p><b>Lancaster, PA (August 3, 2011)<\/b> \u2013 Eight public employees have filed a second federal lawsuit against a local union and the Borough of Ephrata for illegally confiscating union dues payments from their paychecks in unconstitutional amounts and without following federal requirements.<\/p>\n<p>National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys, who previously provided the employees with free legal aid in their first lawsuit, filed the suit yesterday in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, located in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The borough employees, who have exercised their right to refrain from formal union membership with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 1600 union, previously asked the court to protect their National Right to Work Foundation-won rights upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in <i>Abood v. Detroit Board of Education and other cases.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>In <i>Abood<\/i>, the High Court ruled that although nonmember public employees can be forced to pay some union dues, they cannot be forced to pay for union politics and other union activities unrelated to bargaining.  IBEW Local 1600 union officials were compelling the employees to paying a whopping 99.51 percent of full union membership dues before the lawsuit was settled.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/en\/press\/2011\/08\/civil-servants-federal-lawsuit-08032011\">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\/08\/civil-servants-federal-lawsuit-080320111\" title=Civil Servants Slap Government Union Bosses With Second Federal Suit for Illegal Forced Dues Scheme\">Civil Servants Slap Government Union Bosses With Second 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 repeatedly flaunting employees\u2019 constitutional rights<\/h3>\n<p><b>Lancaster, PA (August 3, 2011)<\/b> \u2013 Eight public employees have filed a second federal lawsuit against a local union and the Borough of Ephrata for illegally confiscating union dues payments from their paychecks in unconstitutional amounts and 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-804","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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