{"id":999,"date":"2013-05-31T11:11:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T11:11:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T16:26:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T16:26:16","slug":"west-virginia-utility-worker-wins-10-000-settlements-from-penn-line-service-local-laborer-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrtw.org\/es\/news\/west-virginia-utility-worker-wins-10-000-settlements-from-penn-line-service-local-laborer-union\/","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia Utility Worker Wins $10,000 Settlements from Penn Line Service, Local Laborer Union"},"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\/05\/west-virginia-utility-worker-wins-settlement-05312013\" title=\"West Virginia Utility Worker Wins $10,000 Settlements from Penn Line Service, Local Laborer Union\">West Virginia Utility Worker Wins $10,000 Settlements from Penn Line Service, Local Laborer Union<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Worker discharged from job for not contributing to \u00abvoluntary\u00bb union PAC<\/h3>\n<p><b>Beckley, WV (May 31, 2013)<\/b> \u2013 A former Penn Service Line, Inc. truck driver\/laborer has won a substantial federal settlement from a Pennsylvania-based construction company and a West Virginia union after the company and union violated his rights and illegally seized union dues from his paychecks for the union&#8217;s political action committee (PAC).<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Richmond of Meadow Bridge, WV, received free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2012, when Penn Line Service hired Richmond, company management told him that the job was a \u00abunion job.\u00bb  Between July and October, the company confiscated, and the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) Local 453 accepted, full union dues from Richmond&#8217;s paychecks even though he had not joined the union or consented to union dues payments.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2012, company management gave Richmond and his coworkers a union membership and dues deductions authorization form.  The form included a section for the employees to authorize \u00abvoluntary\u00bb contributions to three LIUNA-affiliated political action committees.  Richmond signed up for union membership because he thought it was required for him to keep his job.  Richmond did not, however, authorize the \u00abvoluntary\u00bb PAC contributions.  Shortly thereafter, Richmond was discharged from his job for refusing to sign up for the union PAC contributions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2013\/05\/west-virginia-utility-worker-wins-settlement-05312013\">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\/05\/west-virginia-utility-worker-wins-settlement-05312013\" title=\"West Virginia Utility Worker Wins $10,000 Settlements from Penn Line Service, Local Laborer Union\">West Virginia Utility Worker Wins $10,000 Settlements from Penn Line Service, Local Laborer Union<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Worker discharged from job for not contributing to \u00abvoluntary\u00bb union PAC<\/h3>\n<p><b>Beckley, WV (May 31, 2013)<\/b> \u2013 A former Penn Service Line, Inc. truck driver\/laborer has won a substantial federal settlement from a Pennsylvania-based construction company and a West Virginia union after the company and union violated his rights and illegally seized union dues from his paychecks for the union&#8217;s political action committee (PAC).<\/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-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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