While as a general matter, employers may be as "hostile" as they like--since as a general matter, employers may simply fire any employee (who does not have an employment contract protecting them) a

If your union is taking money from your paycheck earmarked for pension, union and insurance dues where your insurance company has not been paid, you have the following options:

1. contact y

No, it is not legal to do this without employee consent:

1) An employer may not deduct from an employee's paycheck without the employee's consent or agreement, other than as required by law

The first thing to do is to save those text messages to your computer, if you possibly can; find a way to record them so that even if "something happens" to your phone you can still reproduce those

I think there's a very good chance that you can collect, here, and I'd encourage you to follow up with a good lawyer about this.

There's one big catch:  you have to wait until 03/15/10