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Ex-SEIU Executive Convicted of Stealing from Low-Income Members

SEIU, one of the most notorious unions for corporate campaigns, and forcing workers with low-paying jobs into paying dues for little, if any, representation, slithers to new lows.  Paul Pringle and Hailey Branson-Potts have the story in the Los Angeles…

Union Membership Falls — Again

James Sherk, Senior Policy Analyst with the Heritage Foundation, explains why unions do not speak for their members, and consequently continue to lose members. The story is on National Review Online. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported yesterday that unions…

Fight over unionism gains steam in Keystone State

Anthony Reidel, spokesman for the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, comments on efforts to bring a Right to Work Law through the Pennsylvania legislature. Despite little optimism, Pennsylvania workers have a chance at freedom with several Right to…

Foundation Attorney Comments on Obama’s Vacated Appointments

Since the NLRB appointments of Sharon Block and Richard Griffin are invalid, many cases decided under their tenure could be invalidated or render moot many decisions made by the Board. Bill McMorris, Washington Free Beacon, has the story: The D.C.…

‘The Net Result of the Union’s Dispute Is That Some of Its Members Will Have Their Raises Rescinded’

Union Membership Falls – Again   Whenever they  are seeking to justify compulsory union dues and fees, Big Labor bosses and their allies routinely assume, without acknowledging they are making an assumption, that every single worker who is subject to union monopoly…

Iowa Constitutional Right To Work Law advances

Rod Boshart has the story in the GlobeGazette.com: Republicans seeking to amend Iowa’s Constitution with right-to-work protection weathered a stormy subcommittee meeting Wednesday by steering through strong union opposition. House Joint Resolution 1, which advanced on a 2-1 subcommittee vote,…

Union Bosses “. . . Continue to Lose the Loyalty of the American People.”

An Investors Business Daily editorial comments on the continued decline in union membership numbers. The long slide continues in the private sector, and now even public-sector union ranks are shrinking. A friendly White House can’t save a movement that prices…

NILRR Weekly News Clips January 25, 2013

  Pay Up or Get Sued Washington Free Beacon, January 23, 2013  Steven Cook, president of the Michigan Education Association, circulated an email to local union officials and staff instructing them to monitor revenue streams in light of the right-to-work…

Worker Advocate Files Brief in Dispute in Michigan Public Projects

Union bosses seek to uphold discriminatory system in awarding public contracts National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys have stepped in to promote freedom inthe latestMichigan union boss debacle, flaunting a law forbidding project labor agreements. Staff attorneys from…

Purpose of Right to Work Laws Isn’t to Hurt (or Help) Unions

California Leading Unionized Job Growth The U.S. Labor Department reported on Wednesday that the number of union members nationwide fell by 400,000 from 2011 to 2012, and the share of workers in unions dropped from 11.8% to 11.3%. Many reporters and pundits…

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