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Detroit School Bus Driver Slams Teamsters Union With Federal Charges for Seizing Full Dues Illegally From Paycheck
June 14, 2024 // Dennis is seeking to defend her rights under the Foundation-won Communications Workers of America v. Beck Supreme Court decision, which forbids union officials from forcing employees who have abstained from union membership into paying dues or fees for anything beyond the union’s core bargaining functions. Union political expenditures, which often make up part of full membership dues, are among those expenses that Beck prevents union officials from forcing nonmember workers into funding. Nonmember workers who exercise their Beck rights are also entitled to an independent audit of the union’s finances and a breakdown of how union officials spend forced contributions.
Connecticut school bus driver files labor charges against Teamsters
April 6, 2023 // Mary Boland of New Milford, a driver for All Star Transportation since 2003, alleges the union never stopped deducting membership dues after she requested to be a nonmember in October of 2022 and that they never provided an audit. She is being represented by the National Right to Work Foundation, which provided legal counsel in the Beck decision in 1988. Boland was originally represented by Teamsters Local 677, which organized in 2006, but that union was disbanded and replaced with Local 671 in September of 2022. Boland had been paying fees, not full union dues, to Local 677 before it was replaced, according to the charges filed with NLRB.