Archive for February 2013
Immunity From ID Theft Laws – Another Court-Created Special Privilege For Big Labor?
Court Rules Union BossesCanIgnore Identity Theft Laws To Intimidate Employees (Click here to download Fact Sheet) Over the course of the past century, American elected officials and judges have handed to Big Labor an array of special privileges and immunities that would be unimaginable for any other type of private organization. The U.S. Congress started…
Read MoreObama’s Big Labor Payback Includes Federal Employees
The Washington Examiner’s Sean Higgins examines the Executive Order the president signed in 2009 which created a council on Federal Labor-Management Relations, which gives federal government employee union officials a conduitto government agency heads over and above that of the monopoly bargaining contract. This is not only a Big Labor payback, butan unheard of ploy…
Read MoreForced-Unionism States Were on Average 20% More Costly to Live in Than Right to Work States in 2012
Cost of Living4th Quarter 2012 Recently the Jefferson City-based Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) published comparative cost-of-living indices for the 50 states covering the fourth quarter of 2012. (See the link above.) The National Institute for Labor Relations Research has now used these data, plus MERIC’s indices for the previous three quarters of…
Read MoreBig Labor Is Going to Pot
In a stunning reversal, Big Labor puts individual choice before the “collective good” when it comes to organizing marijuana growers. Jillian Kay Melchior has the story in National Review Online today. Dropping membership is the waking nightmare of American unionism. To cope, Big Labor is turning to pot. Cannabis holds out promise as a growth industry,…
Read MoreNRTW Foundation Recoups Forced Dues For Some Massachusetts Workers
Mark Mix, President of the National Right ot Work Legal Defense Foundation, comments on a victory for workers in Massachusetts. Ira Kantor has the story in the Boston Herald. Workers caught in a battle between a local union and Lynn-based Complete Cleaning Inc. have won a federal settlement from the union after officials illegally claimed…
Read MoreIgnoring Forced-Unionism States’ Higher Cost of Living Won’t Make It Go Away
JURIST – Forum: ‘Right to Work’ in Michigan: Depleting Unions… Union officials and their academic allies understand, just as well as other Americans do, that a dollar doesn’t go nearly as far in forced-unionism New York as it does in Right to Work Texas. And when they are campaigning for policies like state and local…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Newsclips February 15, 2013
Workers win settlement against activist union Boston Herald.com, February 14, 2013 Workers caught in a battle between a local union and Lynn-based Complete Cleaning Inc. have won a federal settlement from the union after officials illegally claimed to have monopoly bargaining privileges over the employees, according to the National Right to Work Legal Defense…
Read MorePhiladelphia Union Boss Boasts About Union Violence
The National Institute for Labor Relations Research has tracked violence incidents since 1975. While much of their information comes from news media accounts, it is obvious that many incidents go unreported, even to police, out of fear of retaliation. Union bosses use tough economic times and free speech to exculpate union violence, their victims still suffer…
Read More“It’s the Union’s Job to Encourage Unrest, Discontent and Unhappiness . . .”
Elijah Grajkowski,Wisconsin public school teacher, explains why he would rather teach in freedom. Read his entire story in the Journal-Sentinel Online. If the teachers union is as wonderful as it claims, then it should have no problem attracting members, without the need to force teachers to join. For years, I have chosen not to be…
Read MoreAlaska Mayor Could Limit Government Union Power
If passed, Anchorage Mayor Sullivan’s proposed law could ban strikes and work disruptions, and limit unions’ monopoly power over government employees. Matthew F. Smith has the story at KTVA TV online. Late Friday afternoon the mayor’s office submitted a proposed ordinance to the Anchorage Assembly that could completely overhaul collective bargaining rights and dramatically change…
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