Archive for July 2013
NILRR Weekly Clips, July 26, 2013
NRTW Foundation starts Pgh ads Pittsburgh Post Gazette Online, July 23, 2013 The conservative National Right To Work Foundation is starting a decent-sized ad buy in the Pittsburgh market…
Read MoreCompetition’s Good For Raisin Farmers, and For Employees as Well
Congress should reexamine raisin marketing law During the Great Depression, the U.S. Congress enacted many laws intended to foster economic recovery by restricting marketplace competition. Â Today there is a wide…
Read MoreMich. Judge – Detroit Bankruptcy ‘Not Honoring’ President
Judge Aquilina, who is in charge of the Detroit city bankruptcy filing, has ordered Governor Snyder to have the Detroit city’s emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, to withdraw the filing because…
Read MoreUnion Hierarchy Boasts About Its Misinformation Squad in Bardstown, Ky.
Rapidly Responding to ‘Right to Work’ – AFL-CIO An item appearing on the AFL-CIO Now blog yesterday applauds Chris Ormes, chieftain of United Steel Workers (USW/AFL-CIO) Local 1241 in Bardstown,…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips July 19, 2013
50 Politicos to Watch: Doug Stafford Politico.com, July19, 2013 Stafford did not meet Paul until late in the summer of 2009. He had risen from a junior writer to…
Read MoreWhat’s at Stake in the Ongoing Battle Over President Obama’s NLRB Nominations?
Reid confident he has the votes to trigger nuclear option in Senate For the vast majority of U.S. history, the rules of the U.S. Senate have allowed a minority of…
Read MoreChange to Win Union Contemplates Reunion With AFL-CIO
The United Food and Commercial workers, part of the original Change to Win Coalition, appears to be doing just that. After 8 years, it looks as if they may be willing to…
Read MoreForced-Unionism Connecticut and Massachusetts Are Hardly Economic Role Models
Why do we care what CNBC thinks about R.I.? Providence-based public radio political analyst Scott MacKay is sneering at the latest Consumer News and Business Channel (CNBC) analysis of…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Clipsheet July 12, 2013
Right to Work and a Test for Republicans Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2013 Still, a ranking of 22nd out of 50 states leaves plenty of room for improvement…
Read MoreGovernment Union Bosses vs. Customer Service
Labor Unions Against the Public Interest The DC Metro system is still tripping up – Washington Post Recently, the detrimental impact of government union monopoly bargaining on public transportation was highlighted by…
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