{"id":849,"date":"2012-02-28T11:46:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T11:46:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T16:32:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:32:52","slug":"news-release-employee-files-federal-lawsuit-against-cwa-union-officials-and-verizon-for-ignoring-her-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/news-release-employee-files-federal-lawsuit-against-cwa-union-officials-and-verizon-for-ignoring-her-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"News Release: Employee Files Federal Lawsuit against CWA Union Officials and Verizon for Ignoring Her Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/newsrelease.png\" style=\"padding-left: 60px\" alt=\"News Release\" width=\"457\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"48\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2012\/02\/verizon-employee-federal-lawsuit-02282012\" title=\"Employee Files Federal Lawsuit against CWA Union Officials and Verizon for Ignoring Her Rights\">Employee Files Federal Lawsuit against CWA Union Officials and Verizon for Ignoring Her Rights<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Worker refused to abandon job during highly-publicized strike but Verizon management continues to illegally divert union dues from her paycheck<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Newport News, VA (February 28, 2012)<\/b> \u2013 In the wake of last year&#8217;s Communications Workers of America (CWA) union boss-instigated strike that grabbed national headlines, a Newport News, Virginia Verizon (NYSE: VZ) worker has filed a federal lawsuit against the company and a local union for violating her rights.<\/p>\n<p>With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, Williamsburg resident Monika Cassell filed the lawsuit in federal district court against Verizon, the CWA and its affiliate, Local 2205, for refusing to honor her right to refrain from paying union dues.<\/p>\n<p>Upset by CWA union officials&#8217; strike order and unwilling to walk off their jobs, Cassell and several other Verizon employees resigned from the union last year and revoked their dues deduction authorizations \u2013 documents 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 money to a union. Under federal labor law, employees can revoke their dues deduction authorizations once a contract ends.<\/p>\n<p>However, Verizon, at the behest of CWA union officials, continues to confiscate full union dues from Cassell and several of her coworkers despite their attempts to opt out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2012\/02\/verizon-employee-federal-lawsuit-02282012\">Read the entire press 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=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"48\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2012\/02\/verizon-employee-federal-lawsuit-02282012\" title=\"Employee Files Federal Lawsuit against CWA Union Officials and Verizon for Ignoring Her Rights\">Employee Files Federal Lawsuit against CWA Union Officials and Verizon for Ignoring Her Rights<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Worker refused to abandon job during highly-publicized strike but Verizon management continues to illegally divert union dues from her paycheck<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Newport News, VA (February 28, 2012)<\/b> \u2013 In the wake of last year&#8217;s Communications Workers of America (CWA) union boss-instigated strike that grabbed national headlines, a Newport News, Virginia Verizon (NYSE: VZ) worker has filed a federal lawsuit against the company and a local union 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-849","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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