For more over three decades, union leaders have done everything possible, legal or not, to skirt the Supreme Court’s Beck decision. Some very recent examples come from Seattle. Last Wednesday, June 17, Daniel Dalison, an employee of a building maintenance contractor, filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against a Service Employees International Union (SEIU) local for misleading him about his right to withhold dues for functions unrelated to union business. Two months earlier, Dalison, formerly an employee at a local hospital, along with a fellow hospital employee, Roger White, had filed separate NLRB complaints against another Seattle-area SEIU local on similar grounds. Under Beck, a union must inform employees of this “opt-out” right. The dissenters appear to have a strong case, too.
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