To Beck and Beyond

An Address by Reed Larson President, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Claremont Institute Los Angeles, California October 9, 1996 Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I'm particularly glad to be here today and to see the presence of so many thoughtful and influential citizens devoting your attention to the misuse of union dues for politics. I've been working at this problem for more than forty years, having decided many years ago that, unless we curtail the excessive political power of organized labor, the free enterprise system as we know it is destined for extinction in our country. I think it would be useful in the context of our discussion today for me to recap a bit of the history of litigation against the misuse of union dues for politics.

Workers’ Experiences in Attempting to Exercise Their Rights under Communications Workers v. Beck and Related Cases

Testimony of Raymond J. LaJeunesse, Jr., Vice President & Staff Attorney, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, Inc. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Thursday, May 10, 2001

THE PERMISSIBLE USES OF FORCED UNION DUES: FROM HANSON TO BECK

by Charles W. BairdCharles W. Baird is a professor of economics anddirector of the Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies,California State University at Hayward.Executive Summary On April 13, 1992, in what many consider to be nothing more than an act of political opportunism, President Bush issued Executive Order 12800, which requires all federal contractors to inform their employees of their "Beck rights." The order stems from a 1988 U.S. Supreme Court opinion, Com- munication Workers of America v. Beck, in which the Court declared that employees forced to pay union dues under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) do not have to contribute to a union's partisan political activities. The Communica- tion Workers of America had been using as much as 79 percent

Workers’ Experiences in Attempting to Exercise Their Rights under Communications Workers v. Beck and Related Cases

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Policy Analysis: The Permissible Use of Forced Union Dues From Hanson to Beck

Policy Analysis: The Permissible Use of Forced Union Dues From Hanson to Beck

KIPP St. Louis Charter High School Educators to Vote This Week on Whether to Oust AFT Union Bosses

Union decertification election will take place among wide swath of school employees, including teachers, advisors, administrative staff, and others ST. LOUIS, MO - Teachers, advisors, nurses, and other employees at KIPP St. Louis High School will vote this week on whether to remove American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union officials from power at the school.

Michigan Security Guard Slams Union with Federal Charges for Illegal Dues Seizures, Transparency Issues

Union officials fail to provide required information on how dues money is spent, already face vote which could stop forced-dues spigot GRAND RAPIDS, MI - James Reamsma, a security guard whose posts include the Gerald R. Ford Federal Building and other government sites in the Grand Rapids area, has hit the United Government Security Officers of America (UGSOA) union with federal unfair labor practice charges maintaining that UGSOA union officials are seizing dues money from his paycheck without providing required disclosures on how the union spends worker cash.

IUOE Union Bosses Hit With Federal Charge for Illegal Termination

Longstanding law protects against mandatory dues deductions, formal union membership PLEASANTON, CA – Sometimes, even the extraordinary power to demand payments from workers under threat of termination isn’t enough for union bosses, who frequently go beyond what is legal to coerce workers into membership and dues payment.

Another MIT Grad Student Hits GSU Union with Federal Labor Charges for Illegally Seizing Money for Radical Union Agenda

Charges: Union officials imposing so-called ‘window period’ restriction to forbid civil engineering grad student from cutting off dues for politics BOSTON, MA - Following five Jewish students filing federal religious discrimination charges against the union, the MIT Graduate Student Union (GSU-UE) is now facing new federal unfair labor practice charges from civil engineering graduate student Katerina Boukin.