{"id":551,"date":"2009-07-22T11:22:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T11:22:43","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:13:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:13:30","slug":"employees-force-settlement-in-precedent-setting-federal-union-racketeering-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/employees-force-settlement-in-precedent-setting-federal-union-racketeering-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Employees Force Settlement in Precedent-Setting Federal Union Racketeering Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/newsrelease.png\" alt=\"News Release\" border=\"0\" width=\"457\" height=\"48\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/en\/press\/2009\/07\/employees-force-settlement-precedent-setting-case-07222009\" title=\"Employees Force Settlement in Precedent-Setting Federal Union Racketeering Lawsuit\">Employees Force Settlement in Precedent-Setting Federal Union Racketeering Lawsuit<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Right to Work Foundation uses innovative legal techniques after company and union officials collude to enrich union bosses <\/h3>\n<p>\n<b>Phoenix, AZ (July 22, 2009)<\/b> \u2013 With free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, five Phoenix-based employees who refrained from formal dues-paying union membership forced a settlement with the defendants in a federal lawsuit laying out how union agents conducted a corrupt scheme to divert sales commissions from the employees to union officials.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNational Right to Work Foundation attorneys used the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) anti-corruption statute (establishing new legal precedent in the process) and the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA) to attack a scheme allegedly orchestrated by Qwest Communications and Dex Media, publisher of the yellow pages phone books, and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 1269 union bosses.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEvidence discovered in the lawsuit showed that IBEW Local 1269 union officials manipulated company procedures to receive greater compensation at the expense of the nonunion plaintiffs.  Some of the methods used to increase the union agents\u2019 compensation included reassigning accounts from nonunion employees to union officials, giving union agents \u201cdouble commissions\u201d for sales made by other workers, and allowing union officials to regularly sell lucrative \u201cgroup ads\u201d while denying similar opportunities to nonmember employees.  By knowingly aiding union agents as they manipulated company rules to increase their performance-based pay, Qwest and Dex were accused of bribing union officials to act against workers\u2019 interests in bargaining negotiations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n(<a href=\"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/en\/press\/2009\/07\/employees-force-settlement-precedent-setting-case-07222009\">Continue reading this news release&#8230;<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees Force Settlement in Precedent-Setting Federal Union Racketeering Lawsuit Right to Work Foundation uses innovative legal techniques after company and union officials collude to enrich union bosses Phoenix, AZ (July 22, 2009) \u2013 With free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, five Phoenix-based employees who refrained from formal dues-paying union [&hellip;]<\/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-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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