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NLRB Sneak Attack on First Amendment Shopfloor.org, February 15, 2013 The NLRB is up to its sneaky ways and they are hoping to slip another precedent shattering decision under the radar. According to the U.S. Supreme Court in…
Pulling out all the stops, several Michigan unions are trying desperate legal measures to attempt to keep workers bound to paying forced dues. Their attempts to make a mockery of the new Right to Work Lawhave not been successful. Kristen…
Darryl Brice Payne, President, and Tianni Latrice Wade, his executive Assistant, were charged with numerous conspiracies to defraud the International Longshoremen’s Associaiton, Local 1526, in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Mark Young, Browardnetonline, has the story. Payne and Brown are both charged…
Unable to live on the strike pay they were drawing, rank and file union members withdrew their support from their union bosses. Thisforced Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1181’s bosses to call off the month-long strike that deprived tens of thousands…
JURIST – Forum: ‘Right to Work’ in Michigan: Depleting Unions … The U.S. Supreme Court’s unexpected decision in the spring of 1937 to uphold the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) gave a massive and almost immediate boost to union organizers. Millions…
Court Rules Union BossesCanIgnore Identity Theft Laws To Intimidate Employees (Click here to download Fact Sheet) Over the course of the past century, American elected officials and judges have handed to Big Labor an array of special privileges and immunities…
Cost of Living4th Quarter 2012 Recently the Jefferson City-based Missouri Economic Research and Information Center (MERIC) published comparative cost-of-living indices for the 50 states covering the fourth quarter of 2012. (See the link above.) The National Institute for Labor Relations…
In a stunning reversal, Big Labor puts individual choice before the “collective good” when it comes to organizing marijuana growers. Jillian Kay Melchior has the story in National Review Online today. Dropping membership is the waking nightmare of American unionism. To…
Mark Mix, President of the National Right ot Work Legal Defense Foundation, comments on a victory for workers in Massachusetts. Ira Kantor has the story in the Boston Herald. Workers caught in a battle between a local union and Lynn-based…