{"id":881,"date":"2012-05-21T13:33:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T13:33:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T16:31:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:31:45","slug":"union-bosses-set-forest-fire-captain-s-religious-rights-ablaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/union-bosses-set-forest-fire-captain-s-religious-rights-ablaze\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Bosses Set Forest Fire Captain\u2019s Religious Rights Ablaze"},"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\/2012\/05\/religious-fire-fighter-05212012\" title=\"Union Bosses Set Forest Fire Captain\u2019s Religious Rights Ablaze\">Union Bosses Set Forest Fire Captain\u2019s Religious Rights Ablaze<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Union officials and state play God with firefighter\u2019s rights<\/h3>\n<p><b>San Francisco, CA (May 21, 2012)<\/b> \u2013 A California Department of Forestry fire captain has filed a religious discrimination charge against the California Department of Forestry Firefighters (CDFF) union for violating his statutory right to refrain from paying forced union dues to support a union hierarchy involved in activities he considers immoral.<\/p>\n<p>With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, Susanville firefighter John Valentich filed the charge against the CDFF union with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission located in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Title VII of the Civil Rights Act forbids discrimination against religious employees and requires companies and unions to attempt to reasonably accommodate employees&#8217; sincerely-held religious beliefs. The obligation to accommodate applies to the payment of compulsory union fees, as no employee should be forced to fund a union that engages in activities that offend their religious convictions.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire release <a href=\"\/en\/press\/2012\/05\/religious-fire-fighter-05212012\">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\/2012\/05\/religious-fire-fighter-05212012\" title=\"Union Bosses Set Forest Fire Captain\u2019s Religious Rights Ablaze\">Union Bosses Set Forest Fire Captain\u2019s Religious Rights Ablaze<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Union officials and state play God with firefighter\u2019s rights<\/h3>\n<p><b>San Francisco, CA (May 21, 2012)<\/b> \u2013 A California Department of Forestry fire captain has filed a religious discrimination charge against the California Department of Forestry Firefighters (CDFF) union for violating his statutory right to refrain from paying forced union dues to support a union hierarchy involved in activities he considers immoral.<\/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-881","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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