Archive for February 2011

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*** Click to download all of today’s NILRR News Clips. *** Subscribe to National Institute for Labor Relations Research by Email Court Lets Stand Ruling Denying Appointment Of Right-to-Work Lawyers for Nonunion Class The officers asked the Supreme Court to review the Second Circuit’s affirmance of the district court’s refusal to appoint their counsel, the…

Subscribe to National Institute for Labor Relations Research by Email The Politics of Unions: Walker v. Daniels Today on Coffee and Markets we’re talking with Mark Mix, head of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, about his views on the battle in Wisconsin and elsewhere over public employee unions. We also talk about…

*** Click to download all of today’s NILRR News Clips. *** Subscribe to National Institute for Labor Relations Research by Email Your World With Neil Cavuto Guest: well the first thing i tell people, it is not a public down but a government down. the public young makes it seem like it is you and…

*** Click to download all of today’s NILRR News Clips. *** Subscribe to National Institute for Labor Relations Research by Email Law Professor Urges Unions to Arbitrate Workers’ Race Claims in Wake of Pyett LOS CABOS, Mexico–In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 14 Penn Plaza v. Pyett decision, unions should seek to represent…

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*** Click to download all of today’s NILRR News Clips. *** Subscribe to National Institute for Labor Relations Research by Email Unions see threat in dues proposal Portland Press-Herald Online 2/14/2011 “Right-to-work” legislation is being vigorously promoted by groups like the National Right to Work Committee, a nonprofit organization that has been promoting right-to-work legislation…

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*** Click to download all of today’s NILRR News Clips. *** Subscribe to National Institute for Labor Relations Research by Email Missouri revisits ‘right to work’ The National Right to Work Committee’s director of legislation, Greg Mourad, said that while wages may be lower in right-to-work states, family income is higher when those states’ lower…

*** Click attachment at the bottom of this article to download all of today’s NILRR News Clips. *** Subscribe to National Institute for Labor Relations Research by Email Crowd debates right-to-work bill UnionLeader.com 2/07/2011 A public hearing on the bill Thursday drew a huge crowd of supporters, union opposition and businesses on either side of…