{"id":820,"date":"2011-10-06T16:34:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T16:34:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T16:35:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:35:15","slug":"news-release-verizon-employee-files-federal-charge-against-cwa-union-officials-for-ignoring-her-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/news-release-verizon-employee-files-federal-charge-against-cwa-union-officials-for-ignoring-her-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"News Release: Verizon Employee Files Federal Charge Against CWA Union Officials for Ignoring Her Rights"},"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\/09\/verizon-cwa-strike-federal-charge-10032011\" title=Verizon Employee Files Federal Charge Against CWA Union Officials for Ignoring Her Rights\">Verizon Employee Files Federal Charge Against CWA Union Officials for Ignoring Her Rights<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Workers refused to abandon job during highly-publicized strike but Verizon continues to illegally seize union dues from her paycheck<\/h3>\n<p><b>Newport News, VA (October 3, 2011)<\/b> \u2013 In the wake of the recent Communications Workers of America (CWA) union-boss instigated strike that grabbed national headlines, a Newport News, Virginia Verizon (NYSE: VZ) worker has filed federal charges against the union and company for violating her rights.<\/p>\n<p>With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, Williamsburg resident Monika Cassell filed unfair labor practice charges against the CWA union, its Local 2205, and Verizon for ignoring her right to refrain from paying union dues.<\/p>\n<p>Upset by the CWA union officials&#8217; order to strike, and desiring to continue working to provide for their families, Cassell and other Verizon employees resigned from the union and revoked their dues deduction authorizations \u2013 a document used by union officials to automatically collect dues from employees&#8217; paychecks \u2013 while the union did not have a contract at their workplaces.<\/p>\n<p>Under Virginia&#8217;s popular Right to Work law, no worker can be required to join or pay any money to a union; and under federal labor law, employees can revoke their dues deduction authorizations once a contract terminates.<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/en\/press\/2011\/09\/verizon-cwa-strike-federal-charge-10032011\">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\/09\/verizon-cwa-strike-federal-charge-10032011\" title=Verizon Employee Files Federal Charge Against CWA Union Officials for Ignoring Her Rights\">Verizon Employee Files Federal Charge Against CWA Union Officials for Ignoring Her Rights<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Workers refused to abandon job during highly-publicized strike but Verizon continues to illegally seize union dues from her paycheck<\/h3>\n<p><b>Newport News, VA (October 3, 2011)<\/b> \u2013 In the wake of the recent Communications Workers of America (CWA) union-boss instigated strike that grabbed national headlines, a Newport News, Virginia Verizon (NYSE: VZ) worker has filed federal charges against the union and company for violating her rights.<\/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-820","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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