{"id":825,"date":"2011-11-04T10:49:07","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T10:49:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T16:34:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:34:43","slug":"news-release-coca-cola-worker-wins-thousands-in-settlement-after-union-bosses-illegally-had-him-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/news-release-coca-cola-worker-wins-thousands-in-settlement-after-union-bosses-illegally-had-him-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"News Release: Coca-Cola Worker Wins Thousands in Settlement After Union Bosses Illegally Had Him 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\/11\/coca-cola-worker-wins-thousands-settlement-11042011\" title=Coca-Cola Worker Wins Thousands in Settlement After Union Bosses Illegally Had Him Fired\">Coca-Cola Worker Wins Thousands in Settlement After Union Bosses Illegally Had Him Fired<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Incident shows Pennsylvania&#8217;s workers desperately need Right to Work protections<\/h3>\n<p><b>Houston, PA (November 4, 2011)<\/b> \u2013 A Coca-Cola employee has won a settlement for over $4,000 with free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Smiesko of Saxonburg won $3,356.46 from Teamster Local 585 union officials and $819.54 from Coca-Cola after he was illegally fired from his job for 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.<\/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 &quot;representation.&quot; Union officials illegally threatened Smiesko with job termination if he did not pay.<\/p>\n<p>Smiesko refused to pay, and Teamster Local 585 union officials demanded that Coca-Cola fire him.  Coca-Cola complied with the union bosses&#8217; demand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2011\/11\/coca-cola-worker-wins-thousands-settlement-11042011\">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\/11\/coca-cola-worker-wins-thousands-settlement-11042011\" title=Coca-Cola Worker Wins Thousands in Settlement After Union Bosses Illegally Had Him Fired\">Coca-Cola Worker Wins Thousands in Settlement After Union Bosses Illegally Had Him Fired<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Incident shows Pennsylvania&#8217;s workers desperately need Right to Work protections<\/h3>\n<p><b>Houston, PA (November 4, 2011)<\/b> \u2013 A Coca-Cola employee has won a settlement for over $4,000 with free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation.<\/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-825","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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