SEIU Officials Face State Charge for Violating Home Care Provider's Rights
Case shows desperate need for California Right to Work law
San Francisco, CA (January 31, 2013) – With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, a San Francisco in-home care provider has filed a state charge against a local union for illegally refusing to honor her right to refrain from full-dues-paying union membership.
On Tuesday, Shiufan Lee filed the charge with the California Public Employment Relations Board (PERB) against Service Employees International Union-Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW).
Lee attempted to exercise her right to refrain from formal union membership via phone in early August 2012, and in a letter she sent on August 3. Lee received a call from a union official where she again asked to resign from membership and full dues payments. Each time she spoke with union officials, they refused to acknowledge her resignation.
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American Registry of Radiologic Technologist is a Union!!
I am state licensed diagnostic & fluoroscopic radiologic technologist. I graduated from a reputable school. I never joined the ARRT. For twenty years the ARRT has grown in power and now if you aren't a member of the ARRT, you can't get a job in any hospital or clinic. That's bad enough, but now, the ARRT has stated that if you did not join the ARRT within five years of graduating and getting your state license, you can't join at all unless you start all over, go back to school complete a whole new course in radiology and then take their exam and pay the fees to them, regardless of the years you worked as a professional and hold state licenses in radiology!! You can't get work unless you are in their organization. That amounts to unionism. No matter how you slice it, they control the hiring and firing through their campaign. They even have the state licensing board cooperating in their efforts. This is a violation of the state of California's right to work law!!
You're right!
Occupational licensing has always been used to protect some members of a profession from the competition of other members in the profession. The causes that the State uses for denying a license always include "moral turpitude", which can be anything the State Board says it is. It is the arrogance of power that the people with State power will use their power in a manner that reflects their personal beliefs. For example, Obama feels that he is the messiah, the chosen one, who is above the law, who feels the same way that Nixon did: "Whatever the President does, is, by definition, legal." and "I am not a crook."