NILRR Newsclips 12 27 2011

Union Monopoly Bargaining Harms Millions of American Workers

National Institute for Labor Relations Research,
www.nilrr.org, 12/22/2011

Apologists for compulsory unionism often suggest, with
little or no evidence, that employees who oppose unionization of their workplace
have no good reason for believing they would be harmed by a Big Labor takeover.
In a recent op-ed opposing passage of an Indiana Right to Work law written for
the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune, for example, Notre Dame professors Barbara Fick
and Marty Wolfson simply assume, without making an argument or citing any facts,
that union nonmembers subject to “exclusive” (monopoly) union representation in
the workplace thereby “enjoy . . . benefits.”1

Will history repeat or will divisive issue fail?

TribStar.com, 12/25/2011

Hoosiers will soon learn if history repeats, as proponents
and opponents of Right to Work legislation are already organizing to coordinate
a campaign that will likely dominate discussion in the 2012 Indiana General
Assembly.

Ex-UAW Officers Sentenced for Conspiracy To Extort Jobs During 1997 GM Strike

Daily Labor Report Online, 12/20/2011

Donny Douglas and Jay Campbell were convicted in 2006 after
a jury trial on charges that they threatened to extend a strike at a Pontiac,
Mich., truck plant unless GM hired two unqualified, non-UAW members for skilled
trades positions (127 DLR A-9, 7/3/06).

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