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Article: County wants to keep it personal: officials resist giving employee information to union.(LABOR)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- October 13, 2008
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A two-year battle over whether a union can get the home addresses and phone numbers of Los Angeles County employees who have opted out of funding union political causes is growing more intense, and the outcome could affect labor law in the private sector.
On one side, a local unit of the Service Employees International Union representing some 55,000 county employees wants officials to turn over the confidential contact information of workers who have opted out of funding union political activities. The union says it wants to give those employees information.
On the other side, county administrators have repeatedly pushed back against the union, claiming ...