March 14, 2011 NILRR News Clips

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Missouri to debate ‘right-to-work’ bill

St. Louis Business Journal Online
3/14/11

Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, was in St. Louis and Jefferson City on Friday to help push for support of Senate Bill 1, a right-to-work measure sponsored by Sen. Luann Ridgeway, R-Smithville.

Hundreds rally against ‘corporate greed’ in St. Louis

St. Louis Business Journal Online
3/11

Mark Mix, president of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, was in St. Louis and Jefferson City on Friday to help push for support of Senate Bill 1, a right-to-work measure sponsored by Sen. Luann Ridgeway, R-Smithville, that will likely come up for debate Monday.

Just Plain Wrong

Concord Monitor Online
3/14/11

This legislation pops up every other year. It originates in Virginia with the National Right to Work Committee, and it has failed in New Hampshire countless times. It does nothing to protect workers, but it is supported by irresponsible corporations that want to see working families get less, so that they can get more.

State teachers union calls for boycott of Duprey

UinonLeader.com
3/14/11

The executive board of the state’s largest teachers union has called for a boycott of the businesses owned by state Republican National Committeeman and Concord developer Steve Duprey because he has called for an end to collective bargaining for public employees and to teacher tenure.

Bill on unions divides

Daily News Journal
3/13/11

MURFREESBORO — Letters sent to Rutherford County and Murfreesboro teachers by two local legislators don’t jibe with a state report breaking down the fiscal impact of a bill that would end collective bargaining.

Sen. David Vitter joins GOP effort to enact national right-to-work law

Times-Picayune
3/11/11

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has joined with seven Republican colleagues in introducing the National Right to Work Act, arguing that right-to-work states are more prosperous than “forced-union†states.

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