Forced Dues for Politics

News Release: California State Employees Lay Out Class-Action Lawsuit before Supreme Court

Anthony Riedel — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:28:46 -0400

California State Employees Lay Out Class-Action Lawsuit before Supreme Court

Court to review Ninth Circuit decision requiring California state employees to contribute to union political fund

Washington, DC (September 14, 2011) – National Right to Work Foundation attorneys filed the initial brief with the United States Supreme Court, which is reviewing a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that forced nonunion California state employees to fund union officials' political activism.

News Release: Civil Servants Slap Government Union Bosses With Second Federal Suit for Illegal Forced Dues Scheme

Anthony Riedel — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:00:01 -0400

Civil Servants Slap Government Union Bosses With Second Federal Suit for Illegal Forced Dues Scheme

Right to Work Foundation attorneys challenge union hierarchy for repeatedly flaunting employees’ constitutional rights

Lancaster, PA (August 3, 2011) – Eight public employees have filed a second federal lawsuit against a local union and the Borough of Ephrata for illegally confiscating union dues payments from their paychecks in unconstitutional amounts and without following federal requirements.

News Release: Teacher Files Brief in Wisconsin Government Unionism Reform Battle in Federal Court

Anthony Riedel — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 09:58:42 -0400

Teacher Files Brief in Wisconsin Government Unionism Reform Battle in Federal Court

Public-sector union bosses file desperate lawsuit seeking to protect forced dues stranglehold over Wisconsin’s public workers and taxpayers

Madison, WI (June 29, 2011) – With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation and the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, a Kenosha teacher affected by Wisconsin’s recent public-sector unionism reforms has filed an amicus curiae brief in federal court.

Right to Work in The Daily Caller: "In Wisconsin, Big Labor politicians help make Right to Work case"

Will Collins — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:56:59 -0400

Writing in The Daily Caller, Right to Work President Mark Mix explains how Big Labor activism in Wisconsin has dramatized the issue of forced union dues:

. . . millions of Americans are now learning about the bitterness with which union-label politicians are defending their forced dues-funded campaign machines. And now citizens are beginning to understand more clearly than ever before why no union official, whether government or private-sector, should ever have been granted forced-dues privileges in the first place, and why it is absolutely necessary to revoke those privileges in order to clean up our political system.

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FEC Refuses to Issue Stern Warning Against Illegal SEIU Union PAC Fundraising Scheme

Anthony Riedel — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 12:02:57 -0400

Yesterday, former Service Employees International Union (SEIU) chieftain and appointment to President Obama's "Deficit Panel" Andy Stern was reportedly being investigated by the FBI for his role in a couple of shady dealings while he was at the helm of the forced unionism leviathan. But that wasn't the only big story coming out yesterday about widespread SEIU union hierarchy corruption during his tumultuous reign. From Ed Barnes on FoxNews.com:

Right to Work Committee: Kagan Opposes First Amendment Right to Refrain from Supporting Union Boss Politics

Anthony Riedel — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:55:53 -0400

As reported in today's Washington Examiner, the National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix sent a letter to the U.S. Senate opposing Elena Kagan's confirmation as a Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court for misrepresenting her views regarding the use of forced union dues for union boss political activity.

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Government Union Bosses Face Federal Suit for Illegal Forced Dues Scheme

Anthony Riedel — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:12:36 -0400

Government Union Bosses Face Federal Suit for Illegal Forced Dues Scheme

Right to Work Foundation attorneys challenge union hierarchy for violating employees’ constitutional rights

Philadelphia, PA (May 21, 2010) – Eight public employees have filed a federal lawsuit against a local union and the Borough of Ephrata for illegally confiscating union dues payments from their paychecks without following federal requirements.

Gov. Quinn Faces Class-Action Suit for Executive Order Designed to Unionize Home-Care Providers

Anthony Riedel — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 11:47:17 -0400

Gov. Quinn Faces Class-Action Suit for Executive Order Designed to Unionize Home-Care Providers

National Right to Work Foundation attorneys assist home-based personal care providers pushed into union’s forced-dues ranks against their will

FEC Fails to Investigate Teachers’ Complaint of NEA Union Money Laundering Scheme

Anthony Riedel — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 12:47:16 -0500

FEC Fails to Investigate Teachers’ Complaint of NEA Union Money Laundering Scheme

Employee rights advocate weighs federal lawsuit

Washington, DC (January 5, 2010) – Apparently without conducting a field investigation, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) dismissed a complaint against one of the most politically active unions in America after evidence surfaced that union officials deposited illegally laundered dues money into its political action committee (PAC).

Michigan Worker Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Halt UAW Policy of Religious Discrimination

Anthony Riedel — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:37:18 -0500

Michigan Worker Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Halt UAW Policy of Religious Discrimination

Right to Work attorneys challenge union officials’ violation of worker’s civil rights

Washington, DC (December 15, 2009) – With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, a western Michigan auto worker is asking the U.S. Supreme Court today to review a United Auto Workers (UAW) union policy intended to stymie workers’ religious objections to the union bosses’ agenda.