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Randy Boettjer<\/a> experienced years of harassment by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 47 union officials. <\/p>\n

Randy (pictured) had dared to raise concerns about health care benefits, but an IBEW official simply scorned, \u201cwe don’t like your kind.\u201d Having been so disgusted by union officials\u2019 deceptions, he created his own website<\/a> critical of the IBEW union hierarchy.<\/p>\n

\"Boettjer<\/p>\n

Once the union bosses learned he was exercising his freedom of speech, union officials filed a lawsuit against Randy for libel and tried to extract $25,000 from him in Orange County Superior Court. Moreover, the union expelled Randy and levied $250,000 in trumped-up fines against him.<\/p>\n

But in the end, Foundation attorneys helped Randy obtain federal labor prosecution of the union, forcing union officials to rescind the $250,000 fine and to stop all forced dues claims against him.<\/p>\n

Randy is just one of hundreds of thousands of employees the National Right to Work Foundation has helped. Read about other individuals courageously defending their rights in the face of ugly union coercion here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Randy Boettjer<\/a> experienced years of harassment by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 47 union officials. <\/p>\n

Randy (pictured) had dared to raise concerns about health care benefits, but an IBEW official simply scorned, \u201cwe don’t like your kind.\u201d Having been so disgusted by union officials\u2019 deceptions, he created his own website<\/a> critical of the IBEW union hierarchy.<\/p>\n

\"Boettjer<\/p>\n

Once the union bosses learned he was exercising his freedom of speech, union officials filed a lawsuit against Randy for libel and tried to extract $25,000 from him in Orange County Superior Court. Moreover, the union expelled Randy and levied $250,000 in trumped-up fines against him.<\/p>\n

But in the end, Foundation attorneys helped Randy obtain federal labor prosecution of the union, forcing union officials to rescind the $250,000 fine and to stop all forced dues claims against him.<\/p>\n

Randy is just one of hundreds of thousands of employees the National Right to Work Foundation has helped. Read about other individuals courageously defending their rights in the face of ugly union coercion here<\/a>.<\/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-155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"\nUnion official: \u201cwe don\u2019t like your kind\u201d - 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\/union-official-we-don-t-like-your-kind\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Union official: \u201cwe don\u2019t like your kind\u201d - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Randy Boettjer experienced years of harassment by International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 47 union officials. 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