{"id":3425,"date":"2015-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T14:06:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T14:06:46","slug":"federal-judge-certifies-class-action-lawsuit-challenging-forced-fees-for-california-civil-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/media\/federal-judge-certifies-class-action-lawsuit-challenging-forced-fees-for-california-civil-servants\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Judge Certifies Class-Action Lawsuit Challenging Forced Fees for California Civil Servants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/newsrelease.png\" height=\"48\" width=\"455\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<b><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #0000ff\">Federal Judge Certifies Class-Action Lawsuit Challenging Forced Fees for California Civil Servants<\/span><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<i>\u00a0<\/i>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<b><i>Lawsuit builds on Knox Supreme Court decision, seeks to require unions to obtain employees\u2019 affirmative consent before collecting any money for political activities<\/i><\/b>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<div>\n\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><b>Sacramento, CA (May 27, 2015)<\/b> \u2013 The United States District Court for the Eastern District of California has just granted class-action status to a lawsuit filed by California civil servants against SEIU Local 1000. The lawsuit challenges the union\u2019s collection policy, which requires nonmembers to affirmatively object to paying for union politics, and asks that the SEIU be required to get employees\u2019 permission before spending their money on political activism. The plaintiffs are receiving free legal assistance from a National Right to Work Foundation staff attorney, who has been certified as the attorney for a class estimated to consist of at least 34,000 workers.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">The lawsuit builds on Knox v. SEIU Local 1000, a Right to Work Foundation-won United States Supreme Court decision from 2012. In Knox, the High Court held, for the first time, that a union should not have collected dues for a political spending campaign without nonmembers\u2019 affirmative consent.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-size: small\"><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<span style=\"font-size: small\">In California and 24 other states that lack Right to Work laws, nonunion employees can be forced to pay union dues or fees to keep a job. However, employees have the right to opt out of paying for activities unrelated to workplace bargaining, such as union political activism.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">\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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Federal Judge Certifies Class-Action Lawsuit Challenging Forced Fees for California Civil Servants - 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\/media\/federal-judge-certifies-class-action-lawsuit-challenging-forced-fees-for-california-civil-servants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Federal Judge Certifies Class-Action Lawsuit Challenging Forced Fees for California Civil Servants - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/media\/federal-judge-certifies-class-action-lawsuit-challenging-forced-fees-for-california-civil-servants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-05-27T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2016-08-09T14:06:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Legal Information\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Escrito por\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Legal Information\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Tiempo de lectura\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minuto\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nrtw.org\\\/media\\\/federal-judge-certifies-class-action-lawsuit-challenging-forced-fees-for-california-civil-servants\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nrtw.org\\\/media\\\/federal-judge-certifies-class-action-lawsuit-challenging-forced-fees-for-california-civil-servants\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Legal Information\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nrtw.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/652ac6218a4e5be3b3b21635c118d4cd\"},\"headline\":\"Federal Judge Certifies Class-Action Lawsuit Challenging Forced Fees for California Civil Servants\",\"datePublished\":\"2015-05-27T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2016-08-09T14:06:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/nrtw.org\\\/media\\\/federal-judge-certifies-class-action-lawsuit-challenging-forced-fees-for-california-civil-servants\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":240,\"commentCount\":0,\"articleSection\":[\"TV &amp; 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