{"id":449,"date":"2009-02-04T16:19:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T16:19:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:14:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:14:42","slug":"state-court-refuses-to-enforce-georgia-s-popular-right-to-work-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/state-court-refuses-to-enforce-georgia-s-popular-right-to-work-law\/","title":{"rendered":"State Court Refuses to Enforce Georgia\u2019s Popular Right to Work Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Nonmember employees forced to pay fees to Longshoreman union bosses vow appeal to state supreme court<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t<b>Atlanta, GA (February 4, 2009)<\/b> \u2013 National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys announced they will appeal last week\u2019s stunning ruling by the Court of Appeals of Georgia that despite Georgia\u2019s longstanding and popular Right to Work law, a local union may force nonmembers to pay for the privilege to work.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\tGeorgia is one of 22 states with Right to Work protections which ensure that no worker can be forced to join or pay dues to a union in order to get or keep a job. The state law unambiguously states that \u201c[n]o individual shall be required as a condition of employment or continuance of employment to pay any fee, assessment, or other sum of money whatsoever to a labor organization.\u201d\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNonetheless, the Georgia Court of Appeals, affirming a lower court ruling, held that the International Longshoreman Association Local 1414 union may legally force nonmembers to pay a referral fee to the union<br \/>\n\ton jobs obtained at a union hiring hall between June 2005 and September 2006. The controversial contract between the union and the Georgia Stevedores Association requires that all employees be hired through the union hiring hall. The union forces all nonmembers to pay referral fees as a condition of employment.\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2009\/02\/state-court-refuses-enforce-georgia02042009\">Click here to read the rest of the Foundation&#8217;s press release.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Nonmember employees forced to pay fees to Longshoreman union bosses vow appeal to state supreme court<\/h3>\n<p>\n\t<b>Atlanta, GA (February 4, 2009)<\/b> \u2013 National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys announced they will appeal last week\u2019s stunning ruling by the Court of Appeals of Georgia that despite Georgia\u2019s longstanding and popular Right to Work law, a local union may force nonmembers to pay for the privilege to work.\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\tGeorgia is one of 22 states with Right to Work protections which ensure that no worker can be forced to join or pay dues to a union in order to get or keep a job. The state law unambiguously states that \u201c[n]o individual shall be required as a condition of employment or continuance of employment to pay any fee, assessment, or other sum of money whatsoever to a labor organization.\u201d\n\t<\/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-449","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>State Court Refuses to Enforce Georgia\u2019s Popular Right to Work Law - 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\/state-court-refuses-to-enforce-georgia-s-popular-right-to-work-law\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_ES\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"State Court Refuses to Enforce Georgia\u2019s Popular Right to Work Law - National Right to Work Foundation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nonmember employees forced to pay fees to Longshoreman union bosses vow appeal to state supreme court   Atlanta, GA (February 4, 2009) \u2013 National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys announced they will appeal last week\u2019s stunning ruling by the Court of Appeals of Georgia that despite Georgia\u2019s longstanding and popular Right to Work law, a local union may force nonmembers to pay for the privilege to work.     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