Indianapolis, IN (May 15, 2013) – Six Indianapolis-area Domtar Paper Company (NYSE: UFS) workers have filed federal charges against a local Teamster union and the company for violating their right to refrain from dues-paying union membership.

With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, Broatus Lambert, Lawrence Langworth, Christopher McKay, Kenneth Rosenfeld, Kevin Schrader, and William Schwier filed the unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

The six workers all exercised their right under Indiana’s recently-enacted Right to Work law to refrain from membership and dues payments in the Teamster union-affiliated Graphic Communications International (GCI) Union, Local 17M. Under Indiana’s Right to Work law, no worker can be required to pay union dues as a condition of employment.

As such, GCI Local 17M union officials no longer have the power to compel nonmember Domtar Paper workers to pay union dues.

Despite the workers’ union membership resignations, Domtar Paper continues to confiscate and GCI Local 17M union officials continue to accept full union dues from their paychecks.

«Teamster union officials are extracting full union dues from workers who want to exercise their rights under Indiana’s popular new Right to Work law,» said Patrick Semmens, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation. «This illegal action must stop.»

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation is a nonprofit, charitable organization providing free legal aid to employees whose human or civil rights have been violated by compulsory unionism abuses. The Foundation, which can be contacted toll-free at 1-800-336-3600, assists thousands of employees in more than 250 cases nationwide per year.