NILRR Newsclips 11 07 2011

Teacher challenges plan in Miami-Dade

The Miami Herald Online, 11/05/2011

Attorneys with the National Right to Work Legal Defense
Foundation – a nonprofit against “compulsory unionism” based outside Washington,
D.C. – are representing Beightol. He is a former candidate for UTD president. He
has since been expelled from the union and is not a paying member.

John Kasich & Scott Walker on Ohio’s Uphill Battle Against Government Unions

Weekly Standard Online, 11/06/2011

And yet, while a similar level of opposition to limiting
“collective bargaining rights” existed in Wisconsin, the reform has succeeded,
so far, in the Badger state. Why are the Ohio reformers much worse off? There
are at least six significant differences between the two states.

Pension Trusts Strapped

Wall Street Journal Online, 11/06/2011

The biggest such fund–a trio of United Auto Worker trusts
covering benefits for more than 820,000 people, including Detroit auto-maker
retirees and their dependents–is underfunded by nearly $20 billion, according to
trust documents filed with the U.S. Labor Department last month.

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