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Taxpayers, through the Department of Labor, could be sponsoring union organizing under the auspices of an apprenticeship program to train home care workers. These apprentices are likely to be forced into paying dues to the SEIU after they take up…
Courts are increasingly finding union-led demonstrations violatenumerous laws. Ryan Williams has the story in The Hill. Last year the state’s Benton County Circuit Court issued a restraining order prohibiting the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) and its…
CongressmanJeff Miller, Chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs (VA), has requested that all VAemployees performing “official time” or union work, return to tending to VA affairs. With 271 employees devoted solely to working on union businesss, the Department…
In California, it’s all about the students for once.Things will soon change in the Golden State, renowned forits powerfulteacher unions. Refusing to bow to this teacher union power, California Superior Court Judge Rolf Treu found in favor of students who…
One of the most-watched cases still to be decided in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2013-2014 term is Harris v. Quinn, in which the plaintiffs are being represented by National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys. A ruling in Harris…
The National Labor Relations Board has found the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) guilty of intentional slowdowns at the Port of Portland. Joseph Rose has the story at the Oregonian. The 18-page decision, (PDF) written by administrative law judge…
High Court Has Long Admitted Compulsory Payments to Government Unions May ‘Interfere . . . With an Employee’s Freedom to Associate’ On May 29, 2014, in News Clips, by Stan Greer There are many problems with rabidly pro-forced unionism California…
Forty-five years ago this February, a federal court overturned North Carolina statutory provisions restricting municipal employees’ right to join, aid and assist labor organizations, finding them to be “an abridgment of the freedom of association protected by the First and…
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers 98 (IBEW) union bosses contine to picket a diner whose owner is using nonunion labor or a building site. Both customers and staff have suffered harassment by the picketers who are really protesting the building…