Mr Scuzbag
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I..........,hereby authorize my employer to deduct from may wages each month (UPSF is weekly) an amount equal to the monthly dues, initiation fees and uniform assessments of Local Union XXX, and direct such amounts so deducted to be turned over each month to the Secretary-Treasurer of such Local Union for and on my behalf.
This authorization is voluntary and is not conditioned on my present or future membership in the Union.
This authorization and assignment shall be irrevocable for the term of the applicable contract between the Union and the employer or for one year, whichever is the lesser, and shall automatically renew itself for successive yearly or applicable contract periods thereafter, whichever is lesser, unless I give written notice to the company and the Union at least sixty (60_)days, but not more than seventy-five (75) days before any periodic renewal date of this authorization and assignment of my desire to revoke same.
Signed..........
........KK....
If anyone who resigns from union membership has a dues checkoff authorization form still in effect with their employer, obviously, they should give the employer's payroll department a heads-up that they have resigned.
A voluntary instruction to Payroll, such as the one you quote, can be revoked at any time with a note to Payroll regardless of any restrictive clauses in the form's language. You always have Freedom of Association and freedom to cancel a voluntary contract at any time. This is America after all, as the July 4th Holiday just reminded us. Such restrictive language is nul and void, and is non-enforceable when ever it conflicts with The Law.
It's just like the "closed shop" language in some collective bargaining agreements. The clause is unenforceable to the extent that it conflicts with Labor Law. The Law always trumps any private rules you may establish. Ask your Local BA and Officers. They'll tell you. They have to obey The Law or they'll be in big trouble.
It's like resigning from you job, or revoking your weekly United Way payroll deduction. You can do so at any time.