May 18, 2011 NILRR News Clips
Right-to-work group enters S.C. plant fight
The State Online, 5/18/2011
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation said it
is seeking to represent the interests of local Boeing employees by intervening
in the closely watched case, said Mark A. Mix, president.
New player in Boeing suit? Legal defense
foundation’s president fears a settlement could weaken right-to-work laws
Post and Courier Online, 5/17/2011
A group that works to protect right-to-work laws in states
such as South Carolina is looking to join a labor lawsuit Boeing Co. is facing
over a new $750 million North Charleston assembly plant.
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation said it
is seeking to represent the interests of local Boeing employees by intervening
in the closely watched case, said Mark A. Mix, president.
Right to Work: Follow the money
Foster’s Online, 5/18/2011
In his veto of the Right to Work bill, Governor Lynch is
avoiding the major issue — new jobs. According to the National Bureau of Labor
Statistics, from 1999 to 2009 RTW states added 1.5 million private sector jobs,
while forced union states lost 1.8 million jobs.
The governor’s veto is all about the money. Let’s follow
the money.
Protesters Speak Out Against RTW Bill
Eagle Tribune Online, 5/18/2011
SALEM — Only about a dozen people turned out Monday at a
local rally opposing the “right-to-work” bill Gov. John Lynch vetoed last week.
But activists are hopeful there are still working families in Southern New
Hampshire who oppose the measure.
GOP Lawmakers Move From NLRB Criticism To
Document Demands and Legislative Action
DLR Online, 5/17/2011
Legislators who have been critical of NLRB allegations that
Boeing unlawfully moved jetliner production away from unionized workers in
Washington state to employees at a nonunion plant in South Carolina have moved
beyond issuing public statements to demanding access to NLRB files and records
and offering legislation to limit the board’s authority in the Boeing case and
similar disputes.
Court Finds Publisher’s Decision to Cancel Union
Dues Checkoff Subject to Arbitration
DLR Online, 5/16/2011
Hearst Corp. must arbitrate a dispute with the Newspaper
Guild of Albany over the publisher’s decision to discontinue dues checkoff after
their collective bargaining agreement expired because the union’s right to dues
checkoff survived the contract’s expiration, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Second Circuit decided May 17 (Newspaper Guild/CWA of Albany v. Hearst Corp., 2d
Cir., No. 10-2402, 5/17/11).
California Farmworkers Could Get Option Of
Majority Signup for Union Representation
Daily Labor Report Online, 5/17/2011
SACRAMENTO, Calif.—California lawmakers gave final approval
May 16 to a bill (S.B. 104) that would give farmworkers the option of using a
majority signup process instead of a secret ballot election to choose union
representation.
S.B. 104, introduced by Senate President Pro Tempore
Darrell Steinberg (D), is sponsored by the United Farm Workers and is similar to
five other bills that lawmakers passed and saw vetoed by former Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger (R) from 2007 through 2010.
Former Michigan carpenter’s union chief pleads
guilty in pension kickbacks
Detroit Free Press Online, 5/16/2011
Walter Ralph Mabry, the former head of the Michigan
Regional Council of Carpenters who also oversaw the union’s pension trust fund,
faces up to three years in prison after admitting in federal court that he
accepted between $5,000 and $10,000 in hotel and entertainment perks in a
pension kickback scheme, U.S. Attorney Barbara said.
Senate plan gives more to unions
Boston.com
Massachusetts Senate leaders, breaking their silence over
one of the most hotly debated issues on Beacon Hill, will release a plan today
to curb the collective bargaining rights of teachers, police officers, and other
municipal workers in an effort to save money for struggling cities and towns.
All Wisconsin union battle ethics complaints dismissed
Green Bay Press Gazette Online, 5/18/2011
MADISON — Wisconsin ethics officials unanimously decided to
dismiss all ethics complaints against both Republicans and Democrats for
political maneuvers during the battle over a controversial anti-union bill.
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