Posts Tagged ‘American Federation of Teachers’
AFT Local 3975 President Charles Farris Sentenced for Theft
AFT Local 3975 President Charles Farris has been sentenced to four years of probation. He must also play $20k in restitution.
Read MoreA West Virginia Teacher Union Cover Up?
West Virginia teachers, take hold of your First Amendment rights, and your professional liability. All government employees may exercise their First Amendment rights to resign from unwanted union membership by visiting myjanusrights.org. On June 16, 2020, in United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, Cathy Byers, former Treasurer of American…
Read MoreOh, What a Complicated Web
An American Federation of Teachers-AFL-CIO affiliate has been cited by the Labor Department Office of Labor Management Standards (OLMS) for elections violations. The complete story is a complicated one involving allegations of mismanagement of funds, as well as election fraud. The local’s Vice President brought the mismanagement charges before the OLMS, then ended up being…
Read MoreAFT President Pleads Guilty to Embezzling Union Funds
AFT Local 4973 President James Young has pleaded guilty to embezzling money from the union.
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work News July 13, 2018
Right-to-work nonprofit threatens lawsuits against officials still collecting “fair-share fees” for unions watchdog.org, July 12, 2018 Last month’s Supreme Court ruling in the Janus v. AFSCME case made it illegal for public unions to take what’s been called “fair-share fees” from non-union members as a condition of their employment. This Friday is the first payday…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clips June 21, 2018
After Three Decades Couple Prevails over Union freebeacon.com, June 17, 2018 The Pirlotts sought out a lawyer locally to defend their right to withdraw but could not find one to take the case. That’s when they turned to the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation to fight the union’s handling of the withdrawal petition.…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work News
Big Labor Academic Candidly Admits That Compulsory Unionism Antithetical To Free Market www.nilrr.org, November 02, 2017 Lichtenstein strongly asserts that: “[Compulsory] unions are not for the market. They’re against the market. That’s the purpose of a union.” Today’s Big Labor bosses are rarely so blunt about their ideological agenda, but we are unaware of any…
Read MoreMonopolistic Unionism Linked to Higher Teacher Absenteeism
One typical effect of union monopoly bargaining in all kinds of workplaces, but especially in the public sector, is to make it very difficult for the employer to reward good employees or to discipline employees who slack off. A recent study by Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s senior research and policy associate David Griffith furnishes a…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work in the News February 03, 2017
National right-to-work bill introduced in Congress Washington Examiner Online, February 02, 2017 Republican lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday that would prohibit workers from being required to support a union, making right-to-work laws the national standard. If enacted, the legislation would be a major challenge for organized labor, which has long counted on union-management contracts that force…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work News Clips, November 30, 2016
Statement to the Workers at Chicago O’Hare International Airport National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation Online, November 28, 2016 According to reports, workers at O’Hare International Airport have been ordered by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) union bosses to strike beginning November 29. Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation,…
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