Verizon Employee Files Federal Charge Against CWA Union Officials for Ignoring Her Rights
Workers refused to abandon job during highly-publicized strike but Verizon continues to illegally seize union dues from her paycheck
Newport News, VA (October 3, 2011) – In the wake of the recent Communications Workers of America (CWA) union-boss instigated strike that grabbed national headlines, a Newport News, Virginia Verizon (NYSE: VZ) worker has filed federal charges against the union and company for violating her rights.
With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, Williamsburg resident Monika Cassell filed unfair labor practice charges against the CWA union, its Local 2205, and Verizon for ignoring her right to refrain from paying union dues.
Upset by the CWA union officials' order to strike, and desiring to continue working to provide for their families, Cassell and other Verizon employees resigned from the union and revoked their dues deduction authorizations – a document used by union officials to automatically collect dues from employees' paychecks – while the union did not have a contract at their workplaces.
Under Virginia's popular Right to Work law, no worker can be required to join or pay any money to a union; and under federal labor law, employees can revoke their dues deduction authorizations once a contract terminates.
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SEIU, AFL-CIO, Teamsters
The Big Three, SEIU, AFL and the Teamsters are what really hurt organizing people to join Unions. These thugs are a disgrace to the country.
Big Three
RTW, CEO's, and Lobbyist are destroying the middle class nationwide.
Funny
That's funny. Verizon is now helping the union w/o even having too. Hmm they want to still work there and enjoy all the advantages of being a union worker, but not pay their fair share to fight for those advantages.
Yup that sums it up, people looking for handouts.
Not so funny
Non-union employees are bound by the terms of the union contract even though they are not members of the union.
Which means they are limited to what the union negotiated no matter how much more valuable to the company they are than the lowest common denominator worker, which is the person for whom the unions negotiate.
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I thought it was a law you could stop paying dues????
That's what this website seems to state, or maybe it's not as easy as they make it seem????