May 25, 2011 NILRR News Clips

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Union Member Files Suit Seeking to Nullify Solis’s 2009 Rescission of Form LM-2
Rule

Daily Labor Report Online, 5/23/2011

In the suit, Chris Mosquera, a member of the Municipal
County Government Employee Organization, a local of the United Food and
Commercial Workers, is asking the U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia to “hold unlawful” the final rule issued Oct. 13, 2009.

National Right to Work President Mark Mix said in a May 23
statement, “Hilda Solis apparently believes that not only should union bosses
have the power to compel workers to pay union dues and fees as a condition of
employment, but that those same union bosses should be able to keep workers in
the dark about how those forced union dues and fees are spent.”

Override is the right thing to do

Foster’s Online, 5/25/2011

Today the New Hampshire House is expected to attempt an
override of Gov. John Lynch’s veto of Right to Work legislation. It is a veto
that for myriad reasons should be overridden.

House Panel Leaders ‘Disappointed’ by NLRB Failure to Produce Boeing Case
Documents

Daily Labor Report Online, 5/24/2011

Writing that prematurely disclosing the acting general
counsel’s strategic plans could compromise the Boeing litigation and “result in
an unfair advantage to one litigant over another,” NLRB failed to produce the
documents Kline and Roe requested. However, the agency offered to meet with the
chairmen to discuss “further information needs that you may have.”

NLRB to workers: Drop dead

Detroit News Online, 5/24/2011

. . . another move – usually mentioned in passing with the
national coverage of the Boeing issue – is the NLRB’s lawsuits seeking to
overturn state constitutional amendments in Arizona and South Dakota
guaranteeing workers secret ballot elections in unionization elections.

House moves to squash union PLAs

Washington Examiner Online, 5/24/2011

The House Appropriations Committee has approved an
amendment by Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., to eliminate PLAs on federal projects
under the military construction appropriations bill.

Teacher resigns over profane email to lawmaker

WFRV TV Channel 5 Online, Green Bay, WI 5/25/2011

High school chorus instructor Rob Schneider told
authorities he was upset and intoxicated when he wrote the email using his work
account to Republican Rep. John Nygren last March following the mass protests at
the state Capitol over the bill that cut collective bargaining for most state
employees.

Republican facing criticism over SB 5 vote to leave Senate

Columbus Dispatch Online, 5/25/2011

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