A group of construction industry employees of a Lawrenceville-based company have filed federal charges at the National Labor Relations Board against their former union, alleging that union officials subjected them to illegal post-resignation discipline after they resigned their memberships.
The workers’ charges were filed at the NLRB with free legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation. The NLRB is the federal agency responsible for enforcing the National Labor Relations Act and adjudicating disputes between employers, union, and individual employees.
The employees, Michael Mitchem, Billy Johnson, David Johnson, and Chris Oaks reportedly resigned their International Union of Operating Engineers memberships months or years ago. The employees claim that despite the resignation, union officials are threatening the workers with fines. The fines are apparently for working at Lawrenceville business Dennis Taylor & Co., which was once part of a “hiring hall” arrangement with the union, but no longer is.
The resignations came after Dennis Taylor & Co. removed itself from an arrangement to hire employees through an IUOE union boss-controlled hiring hall, according to a press release from the National Right to Work Legal Foundation…