Posts Tagged ‘International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers’
IBEW’s Khyle Sherman Pleads Guilty to Major Crimes
Khyle Sherman, who was an IBEW Local 325 member, has pleaded guilty of grand larceny of the third degree, which is a Class D felony.
Read MoreUnion Bosses Cop to Embezzlement, Bribe-Taking
By lavishly doling out forced-dues-funded “in-kind” support for their favored candidates, crooked union bosses like Marita Crawford make many friends in high places.
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 March 24, 2017
AZ Fry’s Grocery Employees Win Federal Court Decision Overturning NLRB Ruling on Dues Deductions during Strike nrtw.org, March 23, 2017 Seven Phoenix-area Fry’s Food Stores employees have won a federal court decision in the DC Circuit Court of Appeals after United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 99 union and company officials refused to honor…
Read MoreUnions Sue Over West Virginia Right to Work
Big Labor’s most recent desperate attempt to keep workers enslaved is a challenge to West Virginia’s Right to Work Law, which just went into effect. Ashton Marra has the story on West Virginia Public Broadcasting. Several labor unions say they intend to sue West Virginia over a recently enacted Right-to-Work law. The bill makes it…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet April 22, 2016
Judge Rules Wisconsin’s Right To Work Statute Illegal — Now What? Forbes.com, April 20, 2016 RJL helped with article So, why is RTW illegal in Wisconsin? Judge Foust states that under RTW, “a free-rider problem is born – the ability of nonmembers to refuse to pay for services unions are compelled to provide by…
Read MoreUnion Boss Clashes with Nonunion Contractor
Nonunion contractor Joshua Keesee claims John J. Dougherty broke his nose and hit him in the eye in an incident on February 21 of this year. Dougherty, Business Manager for the notorious International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98, is also a prominent Philadelphia politician who hashelpedmany politicians. Craig R. McCoy, Mark Fazlollah and Dylan…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet February 19, 2016
Union Fees Case is Not Over Legal team plans to move for Friedrichs case to be re-heard Center for Individual Rights www.cir-usa.org, February 17, 2016 The Court could decide on its own to set the case for re-argument next term. If instead it issues a 4-4 decision, the lawyers for Friedrichs plan to file…
Read MoreNILRR Right To Work Clipsheet December 11, 2015
Documents Show Teachers Unions Spent Millions on Luxury Hotels, Overseas Travel, Car Services The74Million.org, November 29, 2015 A cursory scan of the line items on the union’s annual financial filings shows that the American Federation of Teachers spent more than $1.3 million on luxury hotels, more than $300,000 on foreign travel and an eye-popping $59,368…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Finance Philly Mayoral Race
Union boss Johnny Dougherty, head of Local 98 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, demonstrates his influence on the Philadelphia mayoral election spending hundreds of thousands indues. Brooke Rogers has the story in National Review Online. Kenney’s margin of victory in the mayoral primary, which essentially guarantees a general-election win, would have been difficult,…
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