Swordsmyth
03-12-2019, 08:07 PM
A California special-education teacher filed suit earlier this week against the state teachers' union and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, saying she wasn't told she could opt out of paying union dues.
Bethany Mendez, a teacher in Northern California’s Freemont Unified School District and the lead plaintiff in the case, claimed she was never informed that she no longer was required (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/scotus-ruling-throws-future-of-us-public-sector-unions-into-jeopardy) to have $1,500 in annual dues deducted from her pay.
Mendez and five other California teachers named as plaintiffs want the California Teachers Association to be required to get the consent of educators before union fees are deducted -- and to refund fees because the union failed to inform them of the changes in the law.
In a court filing (https://www.dhillonlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/20190311_1_Complaint.pdf), lawyers representing the teachers argued that the unions “regularly divert a portion of wages to financially support the unions and their political activity,” and that the teachers “never gave legally valid consent for these deductions and have expressly objected to the deductions.”
The California Teachers Association did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
The lawsuit also said Becerra had failed to enforce a decision made last summer by the U.S. Supreme Court that found government workers couldn't be forced to contribute to labor unions representing them.
More at: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-teacher-sues-teachers-union-ag-becerra-for-deducting-dues
Bethany Mendez, a teacher in Northern California’s Freemont Unified School District and the lead plaintiff in the case, claimed she was never informed that she no longer was required (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/scotus-ruling-throws-future-of-us-public-sector-unions-into-jeopardy) to have $1,500 in annual dues deducted from her pay.
Mendez and five other California teachers named as plaintiffs want the California Teachers Association to be required to get the consent of educators before union fees are deducted -- and to refund fees because the union failed to inform them of the changes in the law.
In a court filing (https://www.dhillonlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/20190311_1_Complaint.pdf), lawyers representing the teachers argued that the unions “regularly divert a portion of wages to financially support the unions and their political activity,” and that the teachers “never gave legally valid consent for these deductions and have expressly objected to the deductions.”
The California Teachers Association did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.
The lawsuit also said Becerra had failed to enforce a decision made last summer by the U.S. Supreme Court that found government workers couldn't be forced to contribute to labor unions representing them.
More at: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-teacher-sues-teachers-union-ag-becerra-for-deducting-dues