January 2013

Worker Advocate Files Brief in Dispute in Michigan Public Projects

Union bosses seek to uphold discriminatory system in awarding public contracts National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys have stepped in to promote freedom inthe latestMichigan union boss debacle, flaunting a law forbidding project labor agreements. Staff attorneys from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation have filed a brief in support of…

Purpose of Right to Work Laws Isn’t to Hurt (or Help) Unions

California Leading Unionized Job Growth The U.S. Labor Department reported on Wednesday that the number of union members nationwide fell by 400,000 from 2011 to 2012, and the share of workers in unions dropped from 11.8% to 11.3%. Many reporters and pundits have tried to connect this undoubtedly bad news for Big Labor to the passage of…

County declines to bargain with AFSCME for now

After passage of Wisconsin Act 10,Columbia County officials have agreed they have no mandate to bargain with the former exclusive representative, AFSCME. County officials, it seems, are finding it effective to sit down and talk with their employees, instead of working with union negotiators until the union is recertified as the sole representative, and County…

Right to Work a Moral Issue for Pennsylvania

National Right to Work Committee’s Justin Davis explains why a Right to Work law must be a legislative priority in Pennsylvania. Jacob Perryman, Times Observer, has the whole story: State Rep. Kathy Rapp joined fellow Pennsylvania House Republicans on Tuesday morning to launch a package of bills she said aims to “permanently eliminate this anti-American,…

Phyllis Schlafly – Union Political Spending in 2012

Phyllis Schlafly, on moralliberal.com comments on union bosses’ use of forced dues to elect President Obama to his second term. Today we are inaugurating Barack Obama for his second term. Let’s talk about just one of the reasons he won his campaign for reelection. The union called SEIU was the top spender on Democratic campaigns this year,…

Kansas Union Members Are Still Getting a Bum Deal

Big Labor’s power in many states is so great it can make the government do its bidding, and make it virtually impossible for workers to resign their union membership. Even in Kansas, a Right to Work State, where workers have the freedom to refrain from union support of membership, union bosses have rigged an agreement…

Democrats’ Labor Piggybank Returns

Big Labor’s threat to pull funds from Democrats was only a lovers’ quarrel. LaborPains.org has the story: This summer, organized labor went out of its way to say it was no longer beholden to the Democratic Party’s agenda. But the checks coming in now show that the Democrats and labor never really broke up. But…

Teamsters Union Accuses Minnesota Father, Son of Embezzlement

Teamster union bosses have done it again,allegedly syphoning money from rank and file forced dues. Nataleeya Boss has the story in the Twin Cities Business Magazine Online, January 17, 2013. The charges against longtime Teamsters members Bradley Slawson Sr., and his son, Bradley Slawson Jr., were brought by the Teamsters Independent Review Board (IRB), which…

Right To Work Coming to Pennsylvania

Could Pennsylvania be the next Right To Work state? John Luciew has the story at Pennlive.com. Right-to-work legislation – legally clearing the way for workers to hold union-represented jobs without joining unions or paying dues – could be about to touch off a heated debate in Pennsylvania. Or the measure could again go nowhere, a fate that has…

Basketball Union Boss Played Fast and Loose with Rank and File

Basketball Union Executive Director Billy Hunter managed to get his own contract approved without rank and file sanction, a violation of the union’s constitution. And rank and file basketball players lost compensation and benefits during a 5-month lockout while Hunter kept piling on the riches.That seems to just be the tip of the iceburg. Adrian…