{"id":853,"date":"2012-03-06T12:42:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T12:42:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T16:32:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:32:51","slug":"news-release-public-employee-union-faces-federal-lawsuit-for-illegal-forced-dues-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/news-release-public-employee-union-faces-federal-lawsuit-for-illegal-forced-dues-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"News Release: Public Employee Union Faces Federal Lawsuit for Illegal Forced Dues Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/newsrelease.png\" style=\"padding-left: 60px\" alt=\"News Release\" height=\"48\" border=\"0\" width=\"457\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2012\/03\/AFSCME-EBMUD-lawsuit-03062012\" title=\"Public Employee Union Faces Federal Lawsuit for Illegal Forced Dues Scheme\">Public Employee Union Faces Federal Lawsuit for Illegal Forced Dues Scheme<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Right to Work Foundation attorneys challenge union hierarchy for violating employee&#8217;s constitutional rights<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>San Francisco, CA (March 6, 2012)<\/b> \u2013 An Alameda County East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) employee has filed a federal lawsuit against a local union and the public agency for violating his rights.<\/p>\n<p>James C. Hankins filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco with free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Hankins resigned formal union membership from the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 444 more than ten years ago. <\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, in April 2011, AFSCME Local 444 and EBMUD officials began to deduct full union dues from Hawkins\u2019s paycheck as if he was a full union member. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2012\/03\/AFSCME-EBMUD-lawsuit-03062012\">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\" height=\"48\" border=\"0\" width=\"457\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2012\/03\/AFSCME-EBMUD-lawsuit-03062012\" title=\"Public Employee Union Faces Federal Lawsuit for Illegal Forced Dues Scheme\">Public Employee Union Faces Federal Lawsuit for Illegal Forced Dues Scheme<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Right to Work Foundation attorneys challenge union hierarchy for violating employee&#8217;s constitutional rights<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>San Francisco, CA (March 6, 2012)<\/b> \u2013 An Alameda County East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) employee has filed a federal lawsuit against a local union and the public agency for violating his rights.<\/p>\n<p>James C. Hankins filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco 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-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>News Release: Public Employee Union Faces Federal Lawsuit for Illegal Forced Dues Scheme - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/news\/news-release-public-employee-union-faces-federal-lawsuit-for-illegal-forced-dues-scheme\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"News Release: Public Employee Union Faces Federal Lawsuit for Illegal Forced Dues Scheme - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Public Employee Union Faces Federal Lawsuit for Illegal Forced Dues SchemeRight to Work Foundation attorneys challenge union hierarchy for violating employee&#039;s constitutional rightsSan Francisco, CA (March 6, 2012) \u2013 An Alameda County East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) employee has filed a federal lawsuit against a local union and the public agency for violating his rights.James C. 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