Texas takes action on right to work

El Paso Times:

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott on Tuesday filed lawsuits in El Paso and Corpus Christi against three security companies and a union for allegedly violating the state's right-to-work laws.

One lawsuit stems from a case involving an El Paso security guard who was removed from his job last year because he refused to join a union or pay union fees.

The guard, Juan Vielma, returned to his job this week after a federal administrative law judge in June ruled in his favor and ordered him reinstated.

Abbott filed the El Paso lawsuit against the International Union, Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America, and a joint venture of New Mexico-based Akal Security and Minnesota-based Deco Security.

The lawsuit claims Deco-Akal and the union entered into an unlawful contract that required Deco-Akal employees at a federal facility in El Paso to join the union or pay union dues contrary to Texas' right-to-work laws.

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And, in Corpus Christi:

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott is suing a security guards' union and the Corpus Christi-based employer of a guard who has accused the union of forcing him to pay dues.

Abbott's office filed a civil lawsuit on Tuesday in Nueces County against the International Union of Security, Police and Fire Professionals of America, Local 727, and Asset Protection and Security Services. The Attorney General's office, which filed a similar lawsuit in El Paso, seeks a permanent injunction that would prohibit the union from collecting dues as a condition of employment.

"It is a violation of the law when it becomes non-voluntary," said Thomas Kelley, a spokesman with the Attorney General's office. "The employee should have the option to join or not join. That's all this is about."

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Abbott has been slow off the mark in these cases, but it is good to see that his staff is finally taking action to protect workers from predatory union practices. It took an effort by a national right to work organization to bring these cases before the NLRB.

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