{"id":947,"date":"2013-01-17T13:26:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T13:26:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T16:26:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:26:47","slug":"caterpillar-workers-win-federal-settlement-from-machinist-union-hierarchy-for-strike-discipline-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/caterpillar-workers-win-federal-settlement-from-machinist-union-hierarchy-for-strike-discipline-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Caterpillar Workers Win Federal Settlement from Machinist Union Hierarchy for Strike Discipline Violations"},"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\/2013\/01\/cat-settlement-01172013\" title=\"Caterpillar Workers Win Federal Settlement from Machinist Union Hierarchy for Strike Discipline Violations\">Caterpillar Workers Win Federal Settlement from Machinist Union Hierarchy for Strike Discipline Violations<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Union officials demand hundreds thousands of dollars in strike fines from workers<\/h3>\n<p><b>Chicago, IL (January 17, 2013)<\/b> \u2013 Two Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) workers have won a federal settlement from a local Machinist union after union brass illegally charged them full union dues and attempted to punish them for working during a highly-publicized strike against the company even though the workers were not union members.<\/p>\n<p>The settlement stems from a federal unfair labor practice charge Daniel Eggleston and Steven Olsen filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regional office in Chicago with free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys against the International Association of Machinists (IAM) union and its local District Lodge 851 affiliate.<\/p>\n<p>Eggleston and Olsen have refrained from union membership in the IAM union for years and are thus exempted from the union hierarchy&#8217;s constitution and bylaws.  On May 1, Machinists Local 851 union bosses ordered all of the over 800 Rockdale Caterpillar workers on strike.  Eggleston and Olsen, along with over a hundred other workers, continued to work despite IAM union boss demands.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2013\/01\/cat-settlement-01172013\">Click here to read the full release.<\/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\/2013\/01\/cat-settlement-01172013\" title=\"Caterpillar Workers Win Federal Settlement from Machinist Union Hierarchy for Strike Discipline Violations\">Caterpillar Workers Win Federal Settlement from Machinist Union Hierarchy for Strike Discipline Violations<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Union officials demand hundreds thousands of dollars in strike fines from workers<\/h3>\n<p><b>Chicago, IL (January 17, 2013)<\/b> \u2013 Two Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT) workers have won a federal settlement from a local Machinist union after union brass illegally charged them full union dues and attempted to punish them for working during a highly-publicized strike against the company even though the workers were not union members.<\/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-947","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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