NILRR Newsclips 08 19 2011

Worker Advocate Challenges Obama Labor Board Pro-Union Boss Election Rule Change

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, 8/18/2011

 The National Right to Work Foundation – the nation’s
premier advocate for workers who suffer from the abuses of compulsory unionism –
filed formal comments today with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
opposing the Board’s proposed new guidelines which will help give union
organizers the upper hand over independent-minded employees.

DEVELOPING: Ohio Business Owner Shot For Being Non-Union, Police Investigating

Redstate.com, 8/16/2011

With around 25 employees, John King owns one of the largest
non-union electrical contracting businesses in the Toledo, Ohio area. As a
non-union contractor, his business happens to be doing well at a time when
unions in the construction industry are suffering. This, it seems, has made the
usual animosity unions have for him even greater, making him a prime target of
union thugs. So much so, that one of them tried to kill him last week at his
home.

John King didn’t plan on being an enemy of unions. In fact,
he says all he’s ever wanted to do is work at something he loves doing and be
successful at it—something that most normal Americans would call ‘The American
Dream.’

On, Wisconsin

Wall street Journal Online, 8/18/2011

The Battle of Wisconsin ended with a whimper on Tuesday as
two Democrats facing recall elections for their roles in the fight over union
reform hung on to their seats. Four of six Republicans up for recall did the
same last week. After Greek-style protests in Madison, a judicial election and
tens of millions of dollars spent, voters weren’t in the mood for revenge after
all.

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