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Southwest Ohio School Employee Hits OAPSE Union with Charges for Illegally Seizing Union Dues
February 10, 2023 // Union officials misled worker and ignored revocation request in attempt to deduct dues for entire school year over employee’s clear objection Southwest Public Schools employee Richard Koch has filed charges against the Ohio Association of Public School Employees (OAPSE/AFSCME Local 4) union, telling the Ohio State Employee Relations Board (SERB) that union officials have unlawfully locked him into an entire school year of union dues deductions against his will. Staff attorneys at the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation represent him for free. Koch, who is not a union member, charges that OAPSE union bosses are arbitrarily restricting the time in which school employees can exercise their right to cut off union dues deductions to less than 3% of the year.