Sanford, FL (January 30, 2014) \u2013 With the help of National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, a Central Florida Regional Hospital nurse has filed federal unfair labor practice charges against her employer and the National Nurses Organizing Committee\/National Nurses United union for refusing to allow her to stop paying union dues. <\/p>\n
On November 15, 2013, Margaret Clark sent letters to the union and her employer announcing her decision to resign from the union and stop paying union dues. However, union officials refused to accept Clark\u2019s dues revocation, and her employer continued to deduct union dues from her salary. <\/p>\n
Under Florida\u2019s popular Right to Work law, all employees have the right to resign from a union and stop paying union dues at any time. Moreover, the dues authorization form Central Florida Regional Hospital nurses sign is explicitly conditioned on the employees\u2019 continued union membership, meaning it no longer applies once an employee leaves the union. <\/p>\n
Union officials and Central Florida Regional Hospital management also maintain a policy that requires employees to communicate with them via certified mail \u2013 but only when employees wish to revoke their automatic dues payments. Clark\u2019s charges also challenge this requirement on the ground that it unfairly burdens employees who wish to leave the union and stop paying dues. <\/p>\n
Clark\u2019s charges will now be investigated by the National Labor Relations Board, a federal agency charged with administering private sector labor law. <\/p>\n
\u201cUnion and hospital officials are defying Florida\u2019s longstanding Right to Work law so the union can keep collecting dues from a nurse who no longer wishes to be a union member,\u201d said Patrick Semmens, Vice President of the National Right to Work Foundation. \u201cWe hope the NLRB intervenes promptly to safeguard the rights of independent-minded Florida employees.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sanford, FL (January 30, 2014) \u2013 With the help of National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, a Central Florida Regional Hospital nurse has filed federal unfair labor practice charges against her employer and the National Nurses Organizing Committee\/National Nurses United union for refusing to allow her to stop paying union dues. <\/p>\n
On November 15, 2013, Margaret Clark sent letters to the union and her employer announcing her decision to resign from the union and stop paying union dues. However, union officials refused to accept Clark\u2019s dues revocation, and her employer continued to deduct union dues from her salary. <\/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":[888],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n