Posts Tagged ‘Rhode Island’
Non-Medically Trained Control Over Hospital Staffing Growing
And, the United Nurses and Allied Professional is one example. While the union keeps a nurse as president, the union is actually run by two brothers: a lawyer and a labor activist. Two brothers, who have no medical management experience, appeared to be looking for a target rich environment to build a union. They focused…
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…
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Worker Files Opening Brief in Janus v. AFSCME Supreme Court Case Seeking to Strike Down Forced Union Fees National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, November 29, 2017 Today, attorneys for Illinois public servant Mark Janus filed the first merits brief in the Supreme Court case, Janus v. AFSCME. The brief asks the High Court…
Read MoreVoting With Feet, Breadwinners Flee Forced-Unionism States
Union propagandists often grossly understate, or “forget” about altogether, regional cost-of-living differences when they are debating living standards in Right to Work states vs. forced-unionism states. What’s hardest of all for Big Labor to explain away is that, when they have a choice, working-age people clearly prefer not to live in forced-unionism states. Considered together,…
Read More‘What Business Owner Wants to Move There and, by Default, Own a Piece of That?’
Early this month, freelance journalist Stephen Beale highlighted efforts by Ken Block, a software engineer and 2014 Rhode Island gubernatorial candidate, and former Hasbro CEO and Chairman Alan Hassenfeld to focus public attention on out-of-control government spending in Providence, their state’s capital city. (See the link below to read the whole thing.) Reasonable people may…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work News Clips December 09, 2016
Kanawha circuit judge holds hearing on right-to-work law West Virginia Record Online, December 06, 2016 Mark Mix, the president for the National Right to Work Foundation, said in a press release that “Big Labor’s” latest attack on Right to Work is in a state where there is “overwhelmingly support for the measure.” “Big Labor’s lawyers…
Read MoreBig Labor-Dominated States Headed Down Puerto Rico’s Disastrous Path
In 1998, public-sector union bosses and lobbyists arm-twisted elected officials in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico into handing Big Labor statutory monopoly-bargaining power to negotiate municipal employees’ working conditions. At the time, the union-label politicians who bore the responsibility for adopting the monopoly-bargaining law vowed that it would not hurt taxpayers or undermine the territory’s…
Read MoreCompulsory Unionism Plunges States Deep Into Red
None of the 12 States With the Greatest Absolute State-and-Local Government Debt Per Capita Protects Employees From Being Fired For Refusal to Bankroll an Unwanted Union Twenty-five years ago this May, as state officials across the nation were raising taxes and curtailing essential services to patch over large and widening budget gaps, a prescient cover…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet March 04, 2016
WHEN IVIES SIDE WITH THE NATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK COMMITTEE Politico Morning Shift Online, March 01, 2016 MIT and the Ivy League teamed up Monday on an amicus brief urging the NLRB not to allow graduate student teaching assistants to form unions at Columbia. The schools said there’s no “compelling reason,” to reverse the…
Read MoreNILRR Clipsheet August 28, 2015
Symposium: Will the Court continue to recognize a distinction between bargaining with government and lobbying the government? SCOTUSblog.com, August 25, 2015 Leaving aside the positive impact on public policy of reducing the unique power and financial resources of public-sector unions, the Friedrichs decision will have profound implications for the First Amendment rights of millions of…
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