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Transit Workers Get Dues Check Off Back

Transit Workers Get Dues Check Off Back
Source: Adjunct Law Prof Blog; http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/adjunctprofs/
Reproduced with permission. Copyright © 2008, Mitchell H. Rubinstein, Esq., Adjunct Professor of Law, St. Johns Law School and New York Law School, All rights reserved.

Under the Taylor Law, it is an Improper Practice to strike. Members face a two-day penalty for each day of striking, the union can be found in contempt and fined and the union could loose its check off. In the 2005 NYC Transit strike all of these penalties were imposed.

A November 10, 2008 New York Newsday article is reporting that the Transit union just had their dues check-off restored. That article is available here. The loss of dues deduction check off is a significant penalty for any union, as that would mean that union Stewards would have to individually collect dues.

Mitchell H. Rubinstein

N.B. See http://publicpersonnellaw.blogspot.com/2008/10/union-rather-than-officers-or-board.html for a recent decision concerning the reinstatement of the Transport Workers Union?s right to payroll deductions for union dues from the paychecks of their members employed by the New York City Transit Authority.

Full post as published by New York Public Personnel Law on November 13, 2008 (boomark / email).