Nurse charges Teamsters with additional abuses

Madrina Wells, a nurse at the Grand Blanc Township hospital, originally filed federal labor charges claiming the Teamsters threatened to get the Ascension Genesys Hospital nurse fired if she did not authorize union deductions.

The latest charges allege the Teamsters deducted union dues from Wells’ paycheck without permission.

The union deducted full union membership dues, not the reduced agency fee, Patrick Semmens, vice president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, told Michigan Capitol Confidential in an email.

He said any amount deducted from Wells without her permission would violate her rights under federal law. Unions cannot deduct dues or fees from a paycheck without the worker’s consent.

source: Michigan Capitol Confidential