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 a government operation and take over control of the government’s employees? Thank you, Larry, for telling the truth about compulsory unionism! Read Larry’s Op Ed…

Supreme 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 Interstate Bakery worker, Kirk Rammage. Kevin P. McGowan has the story in the Daily Labor Report (subscription required). Denying an International Brotherhood of Teamsters local’s…

Foundation 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 Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation for help. The Foundation has taken her case and run with it. David L. Streck, Seyfarth Shaw, LLP, has…

ILA, 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. A former shipping terminal operator in Newark and Brooklyn is suing the International Logshoremen’s Association for $160 million, charging that leaders of the 65,000-member dockworkers’…

Proposed ‘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 grass-roots pressure to fight for passage of a state Right to Work law prohibiting compulsory union dues and fees. The vast majority of ordinary Missourians…

NILRR 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 under the radar. According to the U.S. Supreme Court in the Beck decision, employees can object to a portion of union dues’ expenditures if the…

Unions 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 the new Right to Work Lawhave not been successful. Kristen Daum has the story in the Lansing State Journal. The lawsuit filed…

Florida 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, Browardnetonline, has the story. Payne and Brown are both charged in Count 1 with conspiracy to steal money, funds, property, and other assets of the…

Union 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. Thisforced Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181’s bosses to call off the month-long strike that deprived tens of thousands of special needs students from their education and support programs. Rumor has it that even…

If 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 a massive and almost immediate boost to union organizers. Millions and millions of workers joined unions during the late 1930’s, and contracts empowering union officials…