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Noteworthy cases in the United States Supreme Court’s 2011 term Lexology.com, 9/21/2011 The Supreme Court will decide whether a state can require employees to pay union dues used to fund political activities as a condition of continuing employment. Spending fight…
Big Labor Political Spending in the 2010 Election Cycle.pdf 639.8 KB
ILWU President Surrenders to Police On Charges Related to Violent Demonstration Daily Labor Report Online, 9/27/2011 Demonstrators–many wielding baseball bats or crowbars–forced open locked gates, sabotaged rail cars, dumped grain on the tracks, smashed windows of a guard shack, and…
NH Hostile to Freedom? Concord Monitor Online, 9/19/2011 Extreme anti-employee organizations like the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce don’t want workers to even know about their rights to unionize, much less taking…
When Teamsters like Hoffa say, “Take out these SOB’s,” you should worry Biggovernment.com, 9/16/2011 . . .the National Labor Relations Board required the Teamsters union to post a sign to remind Hoffa’s army of what not to do. Here’s a…
The Wall Street Journal story that “Income Slides to 1996 Levels; Median Household Earnings Fall for Third Year, Census Says” gave NILRR research the idea to compare two states: Texas & Illinois. In Texas, median household income in constant 2010…
Hatch to NLRB’s Craig Becker: ‘Did you write the SEIU ‘intimidation manual?’ The Daily Caller Online, 9/14/2011 Hatch continued. “The manual even goes so far as to encourage union members to disobey certain laws when it serves the union’s purposes.”…
Union Violence of little interest to media American Thinker Online, 9/09/2011 Over 500 people “storm” private property, break windows and vandalize other property, wield baseball bats and crowbars, make death threats, and allegedly hold six guards hostage. Fifty law enforcement…
Hundreds of longshoremen storm grain terminal in Washington Los Angeles Times Online, 9/08/2011 Hundreds of angry longshoremen stormed through a grain shipping terminal in Longview, Wash., early Thursday and held security guards at bay while descending on a disputed train…
Labor Day Red Hot Read of the Day lakeshorelaments.com, 9/06/2011 Great post at NRO’s The Corner by Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Committee and the Right to Work Foundation. Believe It or Not: Michigan Court Rules…