May 09, 2011 NILRR News Clips

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IAM Accuses Boeing Of Using Political Tactics In Factory Dispute

Aviation Week Online, 5/06/2011

In Congress, the issue is being seen as a showdown over
states’ rights to permit individual workers to opt out of union membership.
According to the National Right To Work Committee, 22 states endorse
non-compulsory union membership. Most are in the American South, but some are in
the Midwest and the West. States compelling union membership where a majority of
workers have voted for it are in the industrial heartland, the Pacific Coast and
Northeast.

Right-To-Work Laws Work

Daily News-Record Online, Harrisonburg, VA , 5/09/2011

So, who’s Mr. Hoffa kidding? Right-to-work laws not only
offer workers a chance to choose whether or not to join a union, but also
provide greater opportunity to obtain something far more basic: a job.

As Boeing factory debate heats up past writings of NLRB member Craig Becker
raise Questions

Daily Caller Online, 5/06/2011

Old law review articles obtained by The Daily Caller that
were authored by Becker further inflame the already heated debate. “The right to
engage in concerted activity that is enshrined in the Wagner Act – even when
construed in strictly contractual terms – implicitly entails legal restraint of
the freedom of capital,†he wrote in the January 1987 edition of the Harvard Law
Review. “What threatens to eviscerate labor’s collective legal rights,
therefore, is less the common law principle of individual liberty than the
mobility of capital, which courts have held immune from popular control.â€

“If you cut through all the academic speak here, in effect,
what he’s saying is collective bargaining and the Wagner Act doesn’t set up a
system of collective bargaining. It sets up a guaranteed outcome,†explained
Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson. “What he’s saying here
is labor unions can’t possibly succeed unless you guarantee their success. In
his reading of the law, any notion of workers who choose to collectively bargain
sitting down with their employer and working out a deal is gone.â€

Former local union heavyweight may be recharged after legal snafu by feds

New York Daily News Online, 5/07/2011

Daniel Hughes, the former president of the Port Authority
field association Local 111-S, appeared in Brooklyn Federal Court Friday for the
first time since he admitted looting union funds last June.

Federal prosecutors have told Hughes that his union may not
be covered under the law they used to charge him and requested that he withdraw
his guilty plea.

But he wouldn’t be off the hook: Hughes would be charged
with wire fraud and would have to plead guilty a second time.

Sounds simple – but the corrupt labor boss is balking,
claiming the do-over may expose him to double-jeopardy issues.

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