Posts by NILRR Staff
Labor Unions’ Donations
Senator Russ Feingold is “. . . listening to Wisconsin. . . ” while he willingly accepts campaign donations from Big Labor and other out of state sources. M.D. Kittle has the story in WisconsinWatchdog.org. Big labor in particular has spent big money on the Middleton liberal in his bid to take back the seat…
Read MoreStrikers Follow Replacement Workers
Whilethe practice islegal, the practice has some customers wary. Zolan Kanno-Youngs has the story in the Wall Street Journal Online. Jane Clausen got more than she bargained for this week when she asked Verizon Communications Inc. to send someone to her second-floor Brooklyn apartment to fix her Internet. After opening her door Tuesday for two…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet April 22, 2016
Judge Rules Wisconsin’s Right To Work Statute Illegal — Now What? Forbes.com, April 20, 2016 RJL helped with article So, why is RTW illegal in Wisconsin? Judge Foust states that under RTW, “a free-rider problem is born – the ability of nonmembers to refuse to pay for services unions are compelled to provide by…
Read MoreMost Manufacturing Jobs Located in Right to Work States
On Average, Factory-Sector Employees in Forced-Unionism States Receive Roughly $3600 Less in Cost of Living-Adjusted Annual Compensation Than Their Right to Work State Counterparts By Stan Greer (download pdf of Fact Sheet) For several decades, it was a pillar of conventional labor-policy wisdom that manufacturing jobs in the United States were overwhelmingly located in states…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Sue to Keep Records Hidden
Teacher and bus driver union officials have sued the Cherry Hill, Colorado district in order to keep disciplinary records hidden. The local 9News tv station requested the records after there have been more than 15, 000 school bus accidents in the past 5 years. Kevin Vaughn has the story on KUSA 9News Online. As part…
Read MoreWisconsin Workers’ Rights Violated
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has taken on a case for a group of 10 employees of Maysteel Industries in what appears to be a violatio of Wisconsin’s new Right to Work Law. Arthur Thomas has the story in the Milwaukee Biz Times. Attorneys for Maysteel Industries and the union at its…
Read MoreRetaliation for Prosecuting Union Boss?
A Deputy District Attorney has been demoted in the wake of her proposal that prominent union boss John Dougherty be prosecuted for allegedly hitting a nonunion worker. David Gambacorta has the story in phillymag.com. Was a high-ranking member of the District Attorney’s Office demoted over a controversial investigation into Local 98 leader John “Johnny Doc”…
Read MoreStatement on Deadlocked Supreme Court Friedrichs Ruling
National Right to Work Foundation Releases Statement on Deadlocked Supreme Court Friedrichs Ruling 4-4 decision leaves public sector union officials’ forced-dues powers in place Washington, DC (March 29, 2016)– Patrick Semmens, vice president of the National Right to Work Foundation, issued the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s 4-4 Friedrichs ruling: “While we are disappointed…
Read MoreHarry Reid’s Forked Tongue
Despite his objections in 2005 to a President George W. Bush Supreme Court nominee, Senator Harry Ried talks out of both sides of his mouth when it comes to union bosses. Heis now urging the Senate to confirm a nominee set forth by President Obama, who has clearly favored unions in the past. Now Reid’sfawning…
Read MoreForced to Join and Make Less Money
Nonunon workers at Gerawan Farming have been making a base pay of $11.00 per hour since 2014. Last year their average pay was more than $16.00 per hour. United Farm Workers’ union bosses have settled for a contract that will pay workers $11.00 per hour. In 2018. Check out the story on Pick Justice. In…
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