Private sector unions cannot use fees paid by nonmembers to fund their lobbying efforts. A nurse resigned her union membership and objected to the assessment of dues and fees for activities unrelated to collective bargaining, contract administration, or grievance adjustment based on her Beck rights. According to Beck, unions can only use funds collected from…

The former financial secretary for the union that represents workers at Cooper Tire and Rubber Company in Findlay, Ohio was placed on probation Wednesday for two years. U.S. District Court Judge Jack Zouhary also ordered Ronald G. Coldran, 56, of Findlay to repay nearly $31,000 he stole from the union. Coldran, who repaid the money prior to his indictment last November, pleaded guilty March 28th to…

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has proposed rolling back an Obama-era regulation that allowed union dues to be deducted from Medicaid checks. This would stop the automatic dues deduction of homecare workers who never neither voted for the union or receive any…

The United Steelworkers union recently released a “dues calculator” on its website. After employees input information, the calculator tells them how much they owe the union on a weekly basis. Here is how it works:           Calculation 1          Gross Weekly Earnings            …

Dues deduction became a common practice in the mid-1900’s when few workers had checking accounts. Unions tired of going to each member individually to collect dues, so they negotiated into collective bargaining agreements clauses forcing the employer to payroll deduct the dues and remit a single check to the union for all members’ dues. Companies…

Are your employees fully informed of their Beck rights? Probably not. Unions hate Beck rights because employees can avoid paying a percentage of their union dues. This is oftentimes the only reprieve employees have in non-right-to-work states. In Communication Workers of America v. Beck, the Supreme Court ruled that the National Labor Relations Act prohibited…