In November 2009, the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 99 union ordered a strike against Fry’s foods in Arizona, a Right to Work state. During this time, while UFCW did not have a monopoly bargaining contract in effect, almost 800 employees resigned their union memberships and revoked their dues authorizations. UFCW and Frye’s continued to automatically and illegally take dues from these employees anyway. The NLRB sided with the union, but after nearly 10 years of fighting, employees represented by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Fund won their case in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals. Read more about it here.
