{"id":857,"date":"2012-03-20T16:39:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T16:39:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T16:32:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:32:51","slug":"news-release-employee-from-non-profit-public-defense-firm-defends-her-rights-from-seiu-union-hierarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/news-release-employee-from-non-profit-public-defense-firm-defends-her-rights-from-seiu-union-hierarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"News Release: Employee from Non-Profit Public Defense Firm Defends Her Rights from SEIU Union Hierarchy"},"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\/03\/employee-non-profit-public-defense-beck-03202012\" title=\"Employee from Non-Profit Public Defense Firm Defends Her Rights from SEIU Union Hierarchy\">Employee from Non-Profit Public Defense Firm Defends Her Rights from SEIU Union Hierarchy<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Seattle-area case highlights need for state Right to Work law<\/h3>\n<p><b>Seattle, WA (March 20, 2012)<\/b> \u2013 An employee at a private, non-profit public defense law firm has filed federal unfair labor practice charges against a Seattle-area union for violating her rights.<\/p>\n<p>With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, Society of Counsel Representing Accused Persons employee Stephanie Kalfayan filed the charges Friday with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regional office in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Kalfayan resigned from formal union membership in Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 925 and invoked her right to refrain from paying full union dues.  However, because SEIU Local 925 officials enjoy monopoly bargaining privileges over her workplace, and because Washington does not have state Right to Work protections for its workers, Kalfayan is forced to accept SEIU officials&#8217; \u00abrepresentation\u00bb and pay union fees as a condition of employment.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire release <a href=\"\/en\/press\/2012\/03\/employee-non-profit-public-defense-beck-03202012\">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\/03\/employee-non-profit-public-defense-beck-03202012\" title=\"Employee from Non-Profit Public Defense Firm Defends Her Rights from SEIU Union Hierarchy\">Employee from Non-Profit Public Defense Firm Defends Her Rights from SEIU Union Hierarchy<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Seattle-area case highlights need for state Right to Work law<\/h3>\n<p><b>Seattle, WA (March 20, 2012)<\/b> \u2013 An employee at a private, non-profit public defense law firm has filed federal unfair labor practice charges against a Seattle-area 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-857","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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