June 2014

Pro-Forced Unionism Columnist Tries to Airbrush Rod Blagojevich Out of the Harris v.Quinn Case

One of the most-watched cases still to be decided in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013-2014 term is Harris v. Quinn, in which the plaintiffs are being represented by National Right…

Union Bosses Reconsider Obamacare

After throwing their influence, and millions inforced dues, into the passage ofObamacare, union bosses are now rethinking that effort in light to the massive cost increases which have accompaniedits implementation.…

ILWU Bosses Found Guilty of Slowdowns

The National Labor Relations Board has found the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) guilty of intentional slowdowns at the Port of Portland. Joseph Rose has the story at the…

NILRR Weekly News Clips June 03 2014

High Court Has Long Admitted Compulsory Payments to Government Unions May ‘Interfere . . . With an Employee’s Freedom to Associate’ On May 29, 2014, in News Clips, by Stan…

First Amendment Protects a Public Servant’s Freedom Not to Join — a Labor Union

Forty-five years ago this February, a federal court overturned North Carolina statutory provisions restricting municipal employees’ right to join, aid and assist labor organizations, finding them to be “an abridgment…