Anne Langendorfer is president of United Campus Workers in Knoxville.
Tobey Patton is a business representative at Teamsters Local 480, residing in Dyersburg and Nashville.
Unions are the only organizations in the United States compelled by federal law to represent non-members.
No other membership organization, not your Chamber of Commerce, your country club, or any other, is forced to provide services to those who refuse membership or financial contributions.
The legal facts are simple. Under sections 8(a)3 of the National Labor Relations Act, it is illegal to compel an employee to join a union as a condition of employment. Under sections 9(a) and 8(b) of the same act, any union certified under the law has an affirmative duty to bargain for and represent all employees within a workplace equally, regardless of an employee s status as a member or non-member.
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