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Workers Challenge NLRB Policy Permitting Employers and Union Bosses to Coerce Dues Payments Even in Absence of Union Contract
September 16, 2026 // In Washington State, Brittani Butler and four other employees at Holaday-Parks, Inc. resigned from their membership in SMART Local 55 and revoked their check-off authorization after the previous union contract had expired. Despite the requests, Local 55 continued collecting dues from their paychecks and failed to respond to any requests from her or her coworkers. Butler intends to challenge the validity of Frito-Lay’s limitations on employees’ right to cut off dues payments when no union contract exists. In a similar case, Cypress Meadowlark, an employee at Wayne Sanderson Farms in Hammond, Louisiana, also resigned her membership in UFCW Local 455 and revoked her check-off authorization
Louisiana Poultry Employee Submits Second Petition Seeking Vote to Oust UFCW Union
September 18, 2025 // Coty Hally, an employee of Wayne Sanderson Farms’ Hammond processing facility, has just filed a second petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) seeking a union “decertification” election to remove United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 455 union officials from the workplace. Hally’s earlier petition in June of this year was dismissed by an NLRB Regional Director, which ruled that under its non-statutory “contract bar” policy no employee-requested decertification votes may occur for up to three years after a union contract is imposed. This occurred despite Hally having never seen the contract extension agreement that barred his petition.
Hammond poultry facility employee asks board to allow workers to vote union officials out of workplace
August 2, 2025 // Hally's request says that he submitted a petition early this month with signatures from more than 50% of his 550-person unit demanding a vote to oust the union. Normally, NLRB policy only requires 30%. “Region 15 dismissed Hally’s petition consistent with the Board’s contract-bar doctrine,” the Request for Review says. “This bar contradicts the Act’s well-established ‘bedrock principles of employee free choice and majority rule’…because it grants monopoly bargaining status…even in the face of objective evidence proving the union has lost majority support."