May 25, 2011 NILRR News Clips
Union Member Files Suit Seeking to Nullify Solis’s 2009 Rescission of Form LM-2
Rule
Daily Labor Report Online, 5/23/2011
In the suit, Chris Mosquera, a member of the Municipal
County Government Employee Organization, a local of the United Food and
Commercial Workers, is asking the U.S. District Court for the District of
Columbia to “hold unlawful†the final rule issued Oct. 13, 2009.
National Right to Work President Mark Mix said in a May 23
statement, “Hilda Solis apparently believes that not only should union bosses
have the power to compel workers to pay union dues and fees as a condition of
employment, but that those same union bosses should be able to keep workers in
the dark about how those forced union dues and fees are spent.â€
Override is the right thing to do
Foster’s Online, 5/25/2011
Today the New Hampshire House is expected to attempt an
override of Gov. John Lynch’s veto of Right to Work legislation. It is a veto
that for myriad reasons should be overridden.
House Panel Leaders ‘Disappointed’ by NLRB Failure to Produce Boeing Case
Documents
Daily Labor Report Online, 5/24/2011
Writing that prematurely disclosing the acting general
counsel’s strategic plans could compromise the Boeing litigation and “result in
an unfair advantage to one litigant over another,†NLRB failed to produce the
documents Kline and Roe requested. However, the agency offered to meet with the
chairmen to discuss “further information needs that you may have.â€
NLRB to workers: Drop dead
Detroit News Online, 5/24/2011
. . . another move – usually mentioned in passing with the
national coverage of the Boeing issue – is the NLRB’s lawsuits seeking to
overturn state constitutional amendments in Arizona and South Dakota
guaranteeing workers secret ballot elections in unionization elections.
House moves to squash union PLAs
Washington Examiner Online, 5/24/2011
The House Appropriations Committee has approved an
amendment by Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., to eliminate PLAs on federal projects
under the military construction appropriations bill.
Teacher resigns over profane email to lawmaker
WFRV TV Channel 5 Online, Green Bay, WI 5/25/2011
High school chorus instructor Rob Schneider told
authorities he was upset and intoxicated when he wrote the email using his work
account to Republican Rep. John Nygren last March following the mass protests at
the state Capitol over the bill that cut collective bargaining for most state
employees.
Republican facing criticism over SB 5 vote to leave Senate
Columbus Dispatch Online, 5/25/2011
Sen. Jimmy Stewart, an Albany Republican who was facing
heavy criticism from parts of his nine-county southeastern Ohio district for his
vote in favor of the bill slashing collective-bargaining rights for public
workers, told the Senate president yesterday that he will step down in July.
Will Illinois Be America’s Greece?
 Investors business Daily Online, 5/24/2011
The Illinois governor promised to raise taxes and did so on
corporations and individuals, so much so that Caterpillar and other major
employers have complained about the business climate and threatened to leave the
state.
“I want to stay here,” Caterpillar Chief Executive Doug
Oberhelman recently warned in a letter to Quinn. “But as the leader of this
business, I have to do what’s right for Caterpillar when making decisions about
where to invest. The direction that this state is headed in is not favorable to
business, and I’d like to work with you to change that.”
So far, Caterpillar is staying, largely because of
contractual obligations with the United Auto Workers and to incentives that
broke Illinois has offered as a bribe to avoid a major embarrassment. But the
fact remains that the current Illinois business climate is not much better than
Zimbabwe’s.
TEA makes last desperate attempt to save their political power
Examiner Online, 5/24/2011
The Tennessee Education Association, now realizing that
their political power is about to wither away to nothingness, is trying one last
desperate attempt to save themselves in asking Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam to
veto the legislation that replaces collective bargaining by unions with school
boards and county commissions with collaborative conferencing. What, pray tell,
do they think that would accomplish?
The truth behind Chrysler’s fake auto bailout pay back
Washington Examiner Online, 5/24/2011
But as The Truth About Cars reports, the loan pay back is
just another Obama con job:
Back in November of 2009, when GM announced that it would
repay its government loans, it didn’t take much investigation to realize that
The General was simply shuffling government money from one pocket to the other
and that true “payback†was still a ways off. … And now that our government
finds itself “contemplating a runaway deficit and getting rid of its 8 percent
of Chrysler’s equity,†would you believe that a similar federal money-shuffle is
under way? Believe it.
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