{"id":101,"date":"2007-09-27T11:14:25","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T11:14:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:23:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:23:56","slug":"teamsters-policy-poses-immediate-danger-to-first-amendment-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/teamsters-policy-poses-immediate-danger-to-first-amendment-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Teamsters&#8217; Policy Poses &#8216;Immediate Danger&#8217; to First Amendment Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Turnpike employees should watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/news\/cityregion\/s_529581.html\" title=\"Pittsburgh Tribune-Review\">Teamsters union-Turnpike Commission talks<\/a> closely as another union-ordered statewide strike looms.<\/p>\n<p>Why\u00bb Past experience shows that Teamster union bosses tried to block Turnpike employees from exercising their constitutional rights to refrain from formal union membership and cut off compulsory dues unrelated to monopoly bargaining.<\/p>\n<p> In recent months, the National Right to Work Foundation helped 28 Pennsylvania Turnpike employees <a href=\"\/b\/nr_605.php\" title=\"Civil Rights Lawsuits\">file separate federal civil rights lawsuits<\/a> against Teamsters union locals 77 and 250, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, and two Turnpike Commission officers for illegally seizing union dues from the employees\u2019 paychecks.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough came for the Turnpike employees when a <a href=\"\/b\/nr_645.php\" title=\"Federal Judge Enjoins Teamsters Union Local\">federal judge ruled<\/a> that Local 77\u2019s union policy prohibiting employees from resigning from membership (so-called &quot;maintenance of membership&quot; clauses) likely violates First Amendment. <\/p>\n<p>The federal judge enjoined the Teamsters union locals and the PTC from seizing the forced dues from the employees\u2019 paychecks. But most importantly, the judge found that union officials\u2019 actions demonstrated a \u201creal or immediate danger to their First Amendment rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Union officials commonly use the &quot;maintenance of membership&quot; clauses to trap workers in union ranks. And you can bet that as Teamsters union officials sit at the table with PTC officials, they\u2019ll be pushing for this clause to stay so that union bosses can thwart any employee effort to reclaim forced dues.<\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania Turnpike employees should watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pittsburghlive.com\/x\/pittsburghtrib\/news\/cityregion\/s_529581.html\" title=\"Pittsburgh Tribune-Review\">Teamsters union-Turnpike Commission talks<\/a> closely as another union-ordered statewide strike looms.<\/p>\n<p>Why\u00bb Past experience shows that Teamster union bosses tried to block Turnpike employees from exercising their constitutional rights to refrain from formal union membership and cut off compulsory dues unrelated to monopoly bargaining.<\/p>\n<p> In recent months, the National Right to Work Foundation helped 28 Pennsylvania Turnpike employees <a href=\"\/b\/nr_605.php\" title=\"Civil Rights Lawsuits\">file separate federal civil rights lawsuits<\/a> against Teamsters union locals 77 and 250, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, and two Turnpike Commission officers for illegally seizing union dues from the employees\u2019 paychecks.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough came for the Turnpike employees when a <a href=\"\/b\/nr_645.php\" title=\"Federal Judge Enjoins Teamsters Union Local\">federal judge ruled<\/a> that Local 77\u2019s union policy prohibiting employees from resigning from membership (so-called &quot;maintenance of membership&quot; clauses) likely violates First Amendment. <\/p>\n<p>The federal judge enjoined the Teamsters union locals and the PTC from seizing the forced dues from the employees\u2019 paychecks. But most importantly, the judge found that union officials\u2019 actions demonstrated a \u201creal or immediate danger to their First Amendment rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Union officials commonly use the &quot;maintenance of membership&quot; clauses to trap workers in union ranks. And you can bet that as Teamsters union officials sit at the table with PTC officials, they\u2019ll be pushing for this clause to stay so that union bosses can thwart any employee effort to reclaim forced dues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Teamsters&#039; Policy Poses &#039;Immediate Danger&#039; to First Amendment Rights - National Right to Work Foundation<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/teamsters-policy-poses-immediate-danger-to-first-amendment-rights\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Teamsters&#039; Policy Poses &#039;Immediate Danger&#039; to First Amendment Rights - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pennsylvania Turnpike employees should watch the Teamsters union-Turnpike Commission talks closely as another union-ordered statewide strike looms.Why&quot; Past experience shows that Teamster union bosses tried to block Turnpike employees from exercising their constitutional rights to refrain from formal union membership and cut off compulsory dues unrelated to monopoly bargaining. In recent months, the National Right to Work Foundation helped 28 Pennsylvania Turnpike employees file separate federal civil rights lawsuits against Teamsters union locals 77 and 250, the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission, and two Turnpike Commission officers for illegally seizing union dues from the employees\u2019 paychecks.The breakthrough came for the Turnpike employees when a federal judge ruled that Local 77\u2019s union policy prohibiting employees from resigning from membership (so-called &quot;maintenance of membership&quot; clauses) likely violates First Amendment. The federal judge enjoined the Teamsters union locals and the PTC from seizing the forced dues from the employees\u2019 paychecks. But most importantly, the judge found that union officials\u2019 actions demonstrated a \u201creal or immediate danger to their First Amendment rights.\u201dUnion officials commonly use the &quot;maintenance of membership&quot; clauses to trap workers in union ranks. 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