Robin Wyss, Secretary Treasurer
SEIU Healthcare 1199NW
15 South Grady Way, Suite 200
Renton, WA 98057

Dear Ms. Wyss:

I am employed by Swedish Medical Center. If your records show me to be a member of SEIU and its affiliates, I resign that membership effective immediately. I have only just learned – from sources independent of the union – that federal law allows me to refrain from joining the union or paying full dues as a condition of my employment.

Also effective immediately, I revoke any dues check off authorization I may have signed. Since there is no contract in effect at this time between your union and my employer, my dues check off authorization is revocable at will. Please send me a copy of any authorization I may have signed.

If you ever get a new contract in the future requiring me to pay compulsory fees, I am hereby invoking my rights under the Supreme Court’s decision in Communications Workers v. Beck, 487 U.S. 735 (1988) and the NLRB Settlement in Case No. 19-CB-240507. I object to financially supporting the political and non-representational activities of SEIU and all of its affiliates. I wish to reduce any dues I am forced to pay so that I am only paying my pro rata share of the unions’ costs of collective bargaining, contract administration, and grievance adjustment with my employer. I object to exactions for any other purpose.

At such time as you have a contract containing a compulsory dues provision, please reduce any fee amounts that you claim that I owe, and please send me audited financial disclosure to justify reduced fee calculations for your local union and for all levels of the SEIU hierarchy.

Finally, please consider this objection to be permanent and continuing in nature, unless and until I inform you otherwise.

Sincerely yours,

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cc: Swedish Medical Center HR/Payroll Department (via US Mail or intra-office delivery)