Security guards petition to undo required union dues
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WNEM) - Security guards from Flint, Bay City, Mt. Pleasant, Owosso, and Saginaw are among those petitioning to stop union officials from demanding dues as a condition of employment.
In February, the repeal of Michigan’s Right to Work law took effect. This allows union officials to enact and enforce requirements for workers to pay dues or fees to workplace unions. Workers opposed to paying into a union can petition for a “deauthorization vote,” or can remove a union through a “decertification vote,” through a similar process.
James Reamsma, a security guard and employee of Triple Canopy, Inc., submitted a deauthorization vote petition to the National Labor Relations Board in a bid to prevent union officials of the United Government Security Officers of America from requiring dues. In a deauthorization vote, a majority of employees at a workplace can cast ballots to block clauses in union contracts requiring employees to pay union dues or fees. The petition had enough signatures to pass the threshold to trigger a vote, according to National Right to Work.
The vote would take place among “all full-time and regular part-time security guards... performing services for the Company... in and around the cities of Alena, Cadillac, Petosky, Traverse City, West Branch, Flint, Bay City, Big Rapids, Ludington, Mount Pleasant, Owosso, Saginaw, Escanaba, Houghton, Ironwood, Marquette, Sault Ste Marie, Grand Rapids, Holland, and Muskegon Michigan.”
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