Human resources representative’s failure to process worker’s request to refrain from union dues payments forces him to pay union dues for another year 
Hampden, ME (July 24, 2013) – A local United States Postal Service (USPS) worker has filed a federal charge against the agency for failing to timely process his request to refrain from union membership and dues payments, thus forcing him to pay union dues for another year.
Brett Johnson of Holden, Maine, filed the charge with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Monday with free legal assistance from National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation staff attorneys.
On April 30, 2003, Johnson joined the National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) union and signed a dues deduction authorization form. Dues deduction authorizations are used by union officials to automatically withhold dues from employee paychecks.
On April 10, 2013, Johnson sent a letter to the NALC union resigning his membership and refraining from union dues payments. Johnson hand-delivered the same letter to his postal service human resources representative the following day.
Postal workers have the right to refrain from union membership and union dues payments. However, according to the union’s monopoly bargaining agreement, Johnson has only a ten day period starting on April 10 each year when he can revoke his union dues deduction authorization.
Despite his requests, the human resources representative failed to forward his letter to the proper human resources department officials for processing until June 10, 2013. As a result, the USPS continues to deduct union dues from Johnson’s paychecks, and he cannot ask again to stop dues payments until next year.
“Despite this worker going above and beyond what he needs to do to refrain from paying union dues, those dues will continue to be taken from his paychecks,” said Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation. “This case displays how union officials have the power to make it difficult for workers to exercise their right to refrain from paying union dues, even in situations where workers have Right to Work protections.”
Johnson’s charge seeks to stop the confiscation of union dues from his paychecks and a refund of all union dues illegally seized from his paychecks.
Sgt. Bilko….obviously you don’t know the definition of a “scab”. A scab is a non-union worker who crosses the picket line during a strike to work instead of strike. Since letter carriers cannot strike, your point of calling this person a scab is useless, just like your damn union!! I was happy to quit the union! They don’t stand for anything that I do!
Union is worthless only there to protect lazy *** carriers that do nothing all day but drag out their routes so they suck more money out of a company that already *** so much away its going to be great when your laziness comes around to bite you in the *** and you find out the postal service has already spent your pension to cover all the hours you wasted sitting in your llv ***** and your precious union will do nothing for you because they’ve been stealing your money since the day you joined
PEN: please use cleaner language.
To dang bad Scab …. Now back to work, you can always suck off your former brothers and sisters next year.. i bet he is a 204b by then ..