Right to Work’s Job-Growth Edge: Greater Than 2:1

March 6, 2019 by Stan Greer

At the end of last month, the U.S. Labor Department issued new and revised data regarding the number of civilian household jobs (a broad measure that includes the self-employed and contractors as well as workers on employer payrolls) in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. In the aggregate, the…(Read More)

Pensions in Critical Status (2018)

February 21, 2019 by NILRR Staff

Critical, Critical and Declining, Endangered and WRERA Status Notices Under Federal pension law, if a multiemployer pension plan is determined to be in critical status (a plan in critical and declining status is considered to be a plan in critical status) or endangered status, the plan must provide notice of this status to participants, beneficiaries…(Read More)

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A Big Union Payback?

February 19, 2019 by CLJ

Two bills designed to eliminate Right to Work, are expected to be reintroduced in this year’s Congress. With union membership at an all-time low private sector union bosses are desperately seeking ways to increase their membership. Their political activity, funded in part by millions of forced dues, has always been a…(Read More)

Union Boss Johnny Doc Stopped Filing Conflict-of-Interest Reports after 2008

February 12, 2019 by NILRR Staff

(Click here to view Dougherty’s conflict-of-interest reports (Form LM-30) that Philly Union Boss John J. “Johnny Doc” Dougherty filed with the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) covering the years 2004-2008.) Like most union bosses, recently indicted John Dougherty stopped filing conflict-of-interest reports after the Obama Labor Department…(Read More)

Ex Union boss Seabrook Gets Jail for $60,000

February 12, 2019 by CLJ

Former president of the Correctional Officers Benevolent Association Norman Seabrook will go to jail for 4 years after taking a $60,000 kickback. The kickback was in exchange for a $20 million investment of members’ retirement investments in a company that eventually filed for bankruptcy, leaving the pension fund with a fraction of its…(Read More)

Data Suggest 410,000 Government Employees Rejected Unions

February 11, 2019 by Stan Greer

Late last June, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that government employers across the country may not cut deals with Big Labor officials to fire civil servants simply for refusing to pay dues or fees to a union they don’t want, and never asked for. The ruling that government-sector forced union dues and…(Read More)

All in the Family: Dougherty and Forced Dues

February 11, 2019 by CLJ

According to the indictment, 10 of Johnny Doughterty’s family members, currently unnamed, benefited most from the force dues paid to the IBEW Local 198. From baby wipes to $20,000 security systems, from high-end birthday parties to numerous repairs, performed for free by contractors, Johnny Doc’s family members were…(Read More)

Mark Pearce Will Not Serve on NLRB

February 7, 2019 by CLJ

Mark Gaston Pearce, a rabid supporter of union boss schemes and forced dues, withdrew his name from consideration for a place on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Nominated by President Trump, Pearce is known for the many decisions he made blatantly favoring unions at the NLRB during the Obama Administration, including the Browning-Ferris…(Read More)