{"id":971,"date":"2013-03-18T16:25:53","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T16:25:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T16:26:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:26:44","slug":"foundation-action-pennsylvania-construction-worker-digs-up-illegal-union-pac-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/foundation-action-pennsylvania-construction-worker-digs-up-illegal-union-pac-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"FOUNDATION ACTION: Pennsylvania Construction Worker Digs Up Illegal Union PAC Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<b>NOTE: <\/b>This article is from the most recent issue of <b>Foundation <i>Action<\/i><\/b>, our bi-monthly newsletter. You can sign up to receive a print edition of the newsletter <a href=\"\/en\/foundation-action\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<span style=\"font-size: large\">Pennsylvania Construction Worker Digs Up Illegal Union PAC Scheme<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<span style=\"font-size: medium\">Worker loses his job because he didn&#8217;t contribute to &quot;voluntary&quot; union political fund<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<span style=\"font-size: medium\"><\/span> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/files\/nrtw\/Money%20pockets2.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"400\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"299\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSCOTTDALE,?PA?\u2013 A Pennsylvania-based construction company and a local union are facing federal charges for violating the rights of a former truck driver\/laborer.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, Jeff Richmond of Meadow Bridge, West Virginia, filed federal unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) regional office in Cincinnati against Penn Line Service, Inc. and Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) Local 453.<\/p>\n<p><b>Told union membership and political contributions were required<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In July 2012, when Penn Line Service hired Richmond, company management informed him that the job was a \u201cunion job.\u201d\u00a0 Between July and October, the company confiscated, and the LIUNA union hierarchy accepted, full union dues from Richmond\u2019s paychecks even though he had not joined the union nor given authorization for the company to take full union dues from his paychecks.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn October, Penn Line Service management gave Richmond and his coworkers a union membership and dues deductions authorization form.\u00a0 The form included a section for the employees to authorize \u201cvoluntary\u201d contributions to LIUNA\u2019s political action committee (PAC), the Laborers\u2019 Political League, and the West Virginia Laborer\u2019s District Council PAC. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRichmond signed up for union membership and dues payments because he was given the impression that union membership was required for him to keep his job.\u00a0 Richmond did not, however, authorize the \u201cvoluntary\u201d PAC contributions.\u00a0 Shortly after, Richmond\u2019s supervisor informed him that the union form was being returned for Richmond to fill out completely.\u00a0 The next day, Richmond notified his supervisor he would not sign up for the PAC contributions for moral reasons.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter making a phone call, the supervisor gave Richmond an ultimatum:\u00a0 fill out the form or the supervisor would take him home.\u00a0 Standing by his convictions, Richmond went home. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cManagement took me home because I told them I wouldn\u2019t sign the voluntary check off authorization for the [union\u2019s PACs] for moral reasons,\u201d Richmond said.\u00a0 \u201cI didn\u2019t feel that it was right for them to terminate someone because they wouldn\u2019t sign a \u2018voluntary\u2019 check off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Federal law provides some recourse; more needed<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Under federal law, no worker can be forced to formally join a union.\u00a0 Unfortunately, West Virginia does not have a Right to Work law, which means that workers who refrain from union membership can be forced to pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the Foundation-won Communications Workers v. Beck case that nonmembers have the right to opt out of paying for union activities unrelated to workplace bargaining, such as union boss politics, ideological causes, and members-only events. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\nRichmond\u2019s charges allege that company and union officials violated his rights by telling him that the union PAC contributions were a condition of employment and terminating him from his job when he refused to pay up.\u00a0 The charge also alleges that company and union officials violated federal law when they failed to inform Richmond of his rights to refrain from union membership and full union dues before confiscating full union dues from his paychecks.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cBulldozing someone into contributing to a PAC that violates their sincerely-held beliefs is downright unconscionable and also a clear violation of federal law,\u201d said Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation.\u00a0 \u201cCompany and union officials often collude to mislead workers into believing that full union dues payments, and in this case so-called \u2018voluntary\u2019 union PAC contributions, are a condition of employment while leaving workers unaware of their rights.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cNo worker should ever be forced to pay union dues or fees for a cause with which they disagree,\u201d added Mix.\u00a0 \u201cThat is why West Virginia desperately needs to pass a Right to Work law making union membership and dues payments completely voluntary.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n<b>NOTE: <\/b>This article is from the most recent issue of <b>Foundation <i>Action<\/i><\/b>, our bi-monthly newsletter. You can sign up to receive a print edition of the newsletter <a href=\"\/en\/foundation-action\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<span style=\"font-size: large\">Pennsylvania Construction Worker Digs Up Illegal Union PAC Scheme<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<span style=\"font-size: medium\">Worker loses his job because he didn&#8217;t contribute to &quot;voluntary&quot; union political fund<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<span style=\"font-size: medium\"><\/span> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/files\/nrtw\/Money%20pockets2.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"400\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" width=\"299\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nSCOTTDALE,?PA?\u2013 A Pennsylvania-based construction company and a local union are facing federal charges for violating the rights of a former truck driver\/laborer.<\/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":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FOUNDATION ACTION: Pennsylvania Construction Worker Digs Up Illegal Union PAC 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\/es\/blog\/foundation-action-pennsylvania-construction-worker-digs-up-illegal-union-pac-scheme\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FOUNDATION ACTION: Pennsylvania Construction Worker Digs Up Illegal Union PAC Scheme - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"NOTE: This article is from the most recent issue of Foundation Action, our bi-monthly newsletter. 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