If you know anything about Teamsters/Unions.. look here please.

Godslayer · 09-13-2002, 06:27 PM

I was recently hired by a local ambulance agency that is a union job, and you are required to join the union (Teamsters). I received my check this week and they deducted $380 for back union dues from when I was employed at UPS. Needless to say I am not happy about this. Apparently when you quit a union job you must file a withdraw form to get out of the union. No one brought this to my attention so I never filed the form. So they have been accumulating union dues, when I have not been at a union job for the last 3 years. I don't know much about law but this seems highly unfair to me. You would think they would remove me from the roster after not having heard from me for 3 years. Anyway, of course I didn't read the mountain of paperwork they gave me when I started at UPS, who does, so I am wondering if I signed my life away.

I am going to check the forms I signed at the ambulance company and see if there is any clause concerning backdues. Maybe I can salvage something.

What pisses me off most is the fact that they just took the money without notifying me. If possible I would have liked to have made payments instead of 3/4 of my check, if I'm obligated.

Anyway, anyone who has any info or comments on this matter. I'd love to hear them.

Rev · 09-13-2002, 06:40 PM

The problem of course is that $380 is not enough to interest most lawyers, and as it should be. You could maybe check with the ACLU to see if you might have a cause of action, but I doubt it (I'm a dentist, not a lawyer).

Rev

Maroon 5.0 LX · 09-13-2002, 07:46 PM

I don't like unions.

I once worked at a union job and they deducted extra dues for some Local, half way across the country, for rebuilding their strike fund that occured five years before I started to work for them. That irked the heck out of me.

Plus, I got let go from my job when people with less senoirity stayed on the job.

moc · 09-13-2002, 10:13 PM

I don't think so ,(are you a recent hire ? ) I have no idea what union you are affiliated with ? But I have never heard of this / to me that is wrong ! Your dues start when you become a union member . When i got out of the usaf I worked at Phila International airport for 3 yrs as a Freight Agent (Teamsters) i was in a local at that time (and dues started when you became a union member period I moved on and have had a job with Boeings Helicopter Div. for 18 yrs. now 13 of them in local 1069 of the U.A.W. and they never did any BACK COLLECTION ! I would talk to someone you can trust ,, and find out if that is your union's normal ? practice . Good Luck

1965GTO · 09-15-2002, 03:15 AM

All I know is when you quit working a union job you get a withdrawal card. Then if you go to work a gain at a union shop you will not have to pay for initiation. Roadway paid mine when I worked for them. I resigned and got a withdrawal card. Then when I worked seasonal with UPS I didn't have to pay to join their local. Each year I worked there I got a withdrawal card. Now I am working in a railyard loading trains for another local and when I leave here I will get another card. You can not be laid off before someone with less senoirity. You may have been fired.

09-13-2002, 06:27 PM	#1
Godslayer Registered Member Join Date: Mar 1999 Location: Largo, FL USA Posts: 274	If you know anything about Teamsters/Unions.. look here please. I was recently hired by a local ambulance agency that is a union job, and you are required to join the union (Teamsters). I received my check this week and they deducted $380 for back union dues from when I was employed at UPS. Needless to say I am not happy about this. Apparently when you quit a union job you must file a withdraw form to get out of the union. No one brought this to my attention so I never filed the form. So they have been accumulating union dues, when I have not been at a union job for the last 3 years. I don't know much about law but this seems highly unfair to me. You would think they would remove me from the roster after not having heard from me for 3 years. Anyway, of course I didn't read the mountain of paperwork they gave me when I started at UPS, who does, so I am wondering if I signed my life away. I am going to check the forms I signed at the ambulance company and see if there is any clause concerning backdues. Maybe I can salvage something. What pisses me off most is the fact that they just took the money without notifying me. If possible I would have liked to have made payments instead of 3/4 of my check, if I'm obligated. Anyway, anyone who has any info or comments on this matter. I'd love to hear them. __________________ Negative Mustang @ present time.

09-13-2002, 06:40 PM	#2
Rev Registered Member Join Date: Nov 1998 Location: Houston, Tx. Posts: 3,887	$380? The problem of course is that $380 is not enough to interest most lawyers, and as it should be. You could maybe check with the ACLU to see if you might have a cause of action, but I doubt it (I'm a dentist, not a lawyer). Rev __________________ '66 Coupe, 306, 350-375 HP, C-4, 13.07 e.t., 104.8 mph, 1/4 mi. O.B.C. #2 '66 coupe

09-13-2002, 07:46 PM	#3
Maroon 5.0 LX Registered Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Southern Maryland Posts: 471	I don't like unions. I once worked at a union job and they deducted extra dues for some Local, half way across the country, for rebuilding their strike fund that occured five years before I started to work for them. That irked the heck out of me. Plus, I got let go from my job when people with less senoirity stayed on the job. __________________ '89 LX 5.0 - 5 speed. Original Owner '94 E-150 4.9 Hi-Top Conversion Van '06 Mustang V-6, 5 speed

09-13-2002, 10:13 PM	#4
moc Registered Member Join Date: Mar 1999 Location: Ocean City , Maryland Posts: 344	NaNa Na I don't think so ,(are you a recent hire ? ) I have no idea what union you are affiliated with ? But I have never heard of this / to me that is wrong ! Your dues start when you become a union member . When i got out of the usaf I worked at Phila International airport for 3 yrs as a Freight Agent (Teamsters) i was in a local at that time (and dues started when you became a union member period I moved on and have had a job with Boeings Helicopter Div. for 18 yrs. now 13 of them in local 1069 of the U.A.W. and they never did any BACK COLLECTION ! I would talk to someone you can trust ,, and find out if that is your union's normal ? practice . Good Luck __________________ 1991 5.0 NotchBack,Black as of 05/04/09 34,300mi. 2001 LIGHTNING Black 29,872 mi. 05/04/09 (Hangar Queen) SMOKEM UP

09-15-2002, 03:15 AM	#5
1965GTO Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Dupo,ill Posts: 219	All I know is when you quit working a union job you get a withdrawal card. Then if you go to work a gain at a union shop you will not have to pay for initiation. Roadway paid mine when I worked for them. I resigned and got a withdrawal card. Then when I worked seasonal with UPS I didn't have to pay to join their local. Each year I worked there I got a withdrawal card. Now I am working in a railyard loading trains for another local and when I leave here I will get another card. You can not be laid off before someone with less senoirity. You may have been fired.