Archive for February 2013
Larry Sand: If unions do so much for members, why bully?
Larry Sand, President of California Teacher Empowerment Network, has hit the nail on the head once again. What other private organization (and unions are private organizations) can thrust itself into…
Read MoreSupreme Court Judges Teamsters’ Appeal ‘Frivolous’
US Supreme Court Justices deny Teamsters union officials’ review of a case of union favoritism involving seniority. National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys handled the case for an…
Read MoreFoundation Seeks to Bar NLRB Action Due to Lack of Quorum
While union officials tried to force nurse Jeanette Geary to pay dues or be fired, the NLRB upheld union officials’ right to do so. Ms. Geary appealed to the National…
Read MoreILA, Charged With Racketeering, Attempts to Strong-Arm Shipping Terminal Operator
American Stevedoring alleges International Longshoreman’s Union officials have put the company out of business because of their connection to organized crime schemes. Steve Strunksy has the story in the Ledger-Times.…
Read MoreProposed ‘Paycheck Protection’ Measure in Missouri Would Have Relatively Little Impact
Union dues collecting is examined by Missouri, Kansas lawmakers Elected officials in the “Show Me” State, like their counterparts in a number of other forced-unionism states, are coming under ever-more intense…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Newsclips February 22, 2013
NLRB Sneak Attack on First Amendment Shopfloor.org, February 15, 2013 The NLRB is up to its sneaky ways and they are hoping to slip another precedent shattering decision…
Read MoreUnions Try Legal Manuvers Around Michigan Right To Work Law
Pulling out all the stops, several Michigan unions are trying desperate legal measures to attempt to keep workers bound to paying forced dues. Their attempts to make a mockery of…
Read MoreFlorida Union Bosses Indicted on Numerous Criminal Charges
Darryl Brice Payne, President,  and Tianni Latrice Wade, his executive Assistant, were charged with numerous conspiracies to defraud the International Longshoremen’s Associaiton, Local 1526, in Fort Lauderdale, FL.  Mark Young,…
Read MoreUnion Officials Forced to End Month-Long Strike
Unable to live on the strike pay they were drawing, rank and file union members withdrew their support from their union bosses. This forced Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181’s bosses to…
Read MoreIf You Must Defend Forced Unionism, Defend It Forthrightly
JURIST – Forum: ‘Right to Work’ in Michigan: Depleting Unions … The U.S. Supreme Court’s unexpected decision in the spring of 1937 to uphold the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) gave…
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