{"id":782,"date":"2011-05-19T13:27:54","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T13:27:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-08-09T18:06:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T18:06:33","slug":"news-release-union-forced-dues-threats-against-wrtv-anchor-highlight-need-for-indiana-right-to-work-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nrtw.org\/es\/blog\/news-release-union-forced-dues-threats-against-wrtv-anchor-highlight-need-for-indiana-right-to-work-law\/","title":{"rendered":"News Release: Union Forced Dues Threats against WRTV Anchor Highlight Need for Indiana Right to Work Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/newsrelease.png\" style=\"padding-left: 60px\" alt=\"News Release\" width=\"457\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" height=\"48\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2011\/05\/union-forced-dues-threats-against-wr\" title=\"Union Forced Dues Threats against WRTV Anchor Highlight Need for Indiana Right to Work Law\">Union Forced Dues Threats against WRTV Anchor Highlight Need for Indiana Right to Work Law<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Union hit with federal labor board charges for demanding TV anchor pay union dues despite lack of valid contract between her employer and the union<\/h3>\n<p>\nIndianapolis, IN (May 19, 2011) \u2013 With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, WRTV anchor Patricia Shepherd has filed federal unfair labor practice charges against the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) union.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nShepherd\u2019s charges allege that AFTRA officials demanded she pay dues despite the fact that she is not a union member and the union has not had a contract with her employer for the past two years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBecause Indiana lacks a Right to Work law, employees can be forced to pay union dues for the purposes of workplace bargaining just to get or keep a job. In recent months, Indiana legislators were considering a law to make union dues payments strictly voluntary, but Governor Mitch Daniels and House Speaker Brian Bosma, despite strong majorities on record in favor of a Right to Work bill in both chambers of the state legislature, ultimately killed the legislation<a href=\"\/en\/press\/2011\/05\/union-forced-dues-threats-against-wr\">.<br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"\/en\/press\/2011\/05\/union-forced-dues-threats-against-wr\">Click here<\/a> to read the whole thing . . .\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/newsrelease.png\" style=\"padding-left: 60px\" alt=\"News Release\" width=\"457\" align=\"center\" border=\"0\" height=\"48\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"\/en\/press\/2011\/05\/union-forced-dues-threats-against-wr\" title=\"Union Forced Dues Threats against WRTV Anchor Highlight Need for Indiana Right to Work Law\">Union Forced Dues Threats against WRTV Anchor Highlight Need for Indiana Right to Work Law<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center; font-style: italic\">Union hit with federal labor board charges for demanding TV anchor pay union dues despite lack of valid contract between her employer and the union<\/h3>\n<p>\nIndianapolis, IN (May 19, 2011) \u2013 With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation, WRTV anchor Patricia Shepherd has filed federal unfair labor practice charges against the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) union.<\/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-782","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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