March 4, 2011 NILRR News Clips
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No more union dues for Mich. day care providers
Washington Post Online
3/01/2011
There is a lawsuit pending in federal court in Grand Rapids challenging the union dues on constitutional grounds. Several day care providers say paying dues violates their free-speech rights. Their attorney, William Messenger, said the case will continue because he’s still seeking to recover more than $4 million.
F.C.’s Richard Gerard Dies at 85
Falls Church News Press Online
3/02/2011
Dick was a very active member and leader of Dulin United Methodist Church and a Mason at Kemper-Macon Ware Lodge No. 64 A.F. & A.M. He served as an officer of the election board of the City of Falls Church and he was an officer in the National Right to Work Foundation.
Union power grab unravels in Michigan
Washington Examiner Online
3/02/2011
A related lawsuit by the National Right-to-Work Legal Defense Foundation is seeking to force Michigan’s government to return the $4 million in union dues.
Right to Work: A Liberty Issue
Campaign For Liberty Online
3/03/2011
The most common misconception about Right to Work, being spread feverishly by Big Labor and its comrades in the mainstream media, is that employees would be denied their “collective bargaining rights.” This could not be farther from the truth. Last week, National Right to Work Committee President Mark Mix sat down with Campaign for Liberty President John Tate in a two-part interview to clarify and articulate what the current debate is really over: a choice between worker freedom or the coercion of monopoly bargaining.
Researchers Issue Opposing Views on Right-to-Work
Inside Indiana business Online
3/4/2011
In the January 31, 2011 press release of the Indiana Chamber study, Vedder said, “Our results suggest that the impact of a right-to-work law is to increase economic growth rates by 11.5%. The work (also) suggests that over two-thirds of the difference between Indiana and the national rates of economic growth in modern times is explainable by Indiana’s lack of a right-to-work law.â€
Union Bosses Order Off-Duty Firefighters To March Today at Union Rally
BigGovernment.com
3/03/2011
Who runs our government? It may be hard to tell when looking at Wisconsin and Indiana. But, in New Jersey, the state’s SEIU firefighters’ union, New Jersey State Firemen’s Mutual Benevolent Association (FMBA), President Bill Lavin appears to think that forced-unionism power has given him complete control over New Jersey firefighters on and off the job.
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