Archive for February 2014
Former Union Member Recounts Reign of Terror in New York
A former union member recounts union bosses’ reign of terror in Northern New York against nonunion contactors. Phil Fairbanks has the story in the Buffalo News. Even more important, perhaps,…
Read MoreProtected: Big Labor Prairie State ‘Think Tanker’ Plays His Cards Close to the Vest
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Read MoreVW workers reject UAW organizing drive at Tenn. plant
The workers at Volkswagen, Chattanooga, have spoken. Gabe Nelson has the story in Automotive News. Workers at Volkswagen AG’s plant here voted to reject UAW representation, dealing a devastating loss…
Read MoreFormer Labor Secretary Mentioned in Suit by Rank And File
Rank and file members of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) have filed suit against Vice President William Wagonner, alleging he embezzled money from Former Labor Secretary Hilda Solis,…
Read MoreTN taxpayers subsidize UAW outrage at VW plant
Tennessee taxpayers have poured more than a half-billion dollars in incentives into the Volkswagen plant. Matt Patterson tells the story in the Tenneseean.com. In fact, the more than a half-billion…
Read MoreBig Labor ‘Think Tank’ Ignores Large Negative Correlation Between Forced Unionism and Construction Employee Compensation Growth
In a 2010 article for the International Journal of Epidemiology, Donna Spiegelman of the Harvard School of Public Health observed: The adage ‘correlation is not causation’ has been repeated so…
Read MoreUnion Boss: “By Signing the Negatives Go Away”
Operating Engineers’ union boss threatens a nonunion conractor who questions the benefit of using union labor. Michael J. Caggiano was also convicted of misdemeanor assault on nonunion contractor Timothy Such, whose business is now…
Read MoreCombination of ‘Forced Silence,’ ‘Forced Subsidization’ Exacerbates ‘First Amendment Problem’
In Harris v Quinn, a potentially landmark federal lawsuit, National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys are representing, free of charge, a group of Illinois home care providers who…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips, February 7, 2014
Worker Advocate Reacts to Volkswagen’s Request for NLRB Union Election www.nrtw.org, February 3, 2014 Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation, issued the following statement after the…
Read MorePyongyang, Tennessee?
German union boss Detlef Wetzel of Germany’s IG Metall, compared nonunionized Southern states to North Korea. Huh? Yes. Holman Jenkins, Jr., has the story in the Wall Street Journal.…
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