SCONZA EMPLOYEE FILES FEDERAL LABOR CHARGES AGAINST UNION

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.oakdaleleader.com/section/44/article/13699/




Sconza employee Athena Manning filed federal charges against Sconza and Bakers Union Local 125 for unfair labor practices. Manning was suspended for a week in June for not joining the union when she was waiting a breakdown of fees charged in the dues. RICHARD PALOMA/ The Leader


By Richard Paloma
Staff Reporter

A Sconza Candy Company employee has filed federal charges against a local bakers union and her employer for a litany of rights violations regarding mandatory union membership and a subsequent suspension she received for not joining the union in a timely manner.

With the help of National Right to Work Foundation staff attorneys, Sconza employee Athena Manning filed the unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on Wednesday, Nov. 5.

“There’s something rotten here with the union and Sconza,” Manning said on Friday, Nov 7. “The union doesn’t take care of their employees or their rights.”

Manning, who worked as a temporary employee in September of 2013, and hired as a full-time employee in March 2014, charges that Sconza management and Bakers Union Local 125 of San Leandro failed to notify her of her rights to refrain from full-dues-paying union membership. She also claims that in May, company and union officials also misled her about her obligations to the union, claiming that joining the union and paying full dues were required as a condition of employment.

FULL story at link.

[yallerdawg]

1. Is the 'closed shop' a thing of the past now?

Doesn't 'right to work' exist as law to offer the employee choice regarding union membership (which of course is a union-busting political tool)? California is not 'right to work.'

Sounds like Athena Manning is rather ignorant regarding conditions of employment and the role of the union in her opportunity to get a job, workplace conditions, and the wages she is paid.

Hope this goes nowhere!

[mercuryblues]

2. Bakers Union Local 125

should teach her how to use the Google machine.

Her supposed grievance is that she did not want to participate in political spending against her beliefs. The theory is that she would have joined the union, just withhold the portion of her dues that goes towards political expenditures.

The problem with her complaint. There isn't political spending to report and a quick google search would have told her that. So she is basically suing because they did not tell her they don't participate in what she finds objectionable and doesn't want to pay for. I hope the Union lawyers will frame it that way to the judge and they laugh her out of court.

https://www.unionfacts.com/lu/1654/BCTGMI/125/#spending-tab