Anonymous ID: 340b8d April 29, 2018, 1:21 p.m. No.1237608   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>7671

Worker Seeks to Cut Ties with Union that Smeared Her Husband

 

Suit seeks to end automatic paycheck deductions in Oregon

 

An Oregon state worker has paid thousands of dollars to the union that spent tens of thousands of dollars attacking her husband.

 

An Oregon state worker has paid thousands of dollars to the union that spent tens of thousands of dollars attacking her husband.

 

Debora Nearman, a systems analyst at the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, is suing the state and labor giant Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 503 to end automatic paycheck deductions for the union. Nearman pays about $120 in agency fees—which are supposed to cover only collective bargaining services, rather than political activity—each month to the union. She paid $1,250 to the union before receiving a $270 refund for political activities in 2017—the year after Local 503 spent $53,260 to campaign against her husband, Republican state representative Mike Nearman.

 

"I had a firsthand view of how the union impacts the politics of this state. "I was really shocked by how much money they put in my husband's race and the disgusting nature of the fliers they circulated about him."

 

"SEIU has tried to circumvent past Supreme Court rulings.… I expect the same type of behavior this time around after Janus is decided," Gibson said. "We're ready for you this time."

 

The suit was filed with assistance from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. Mark Mix, the nonprofit's president, said that case will help to ensure worker freedom.

 

"It is wrong that Nearman has been forced by her state government to subsidize an organization that dragged her husband's name through the mud," Mix said in a statement. "Union bosses seize workers' hard-earned money to support issues that violate the workers' consciences, which is contrary to the heart of the First Amendment."

 

http://freebeacon.com/politics/worker-seeks-cut-ties-union-smeared-husband/