NILRR Newsclips 12 05 2011

KNIGHT: Free speech? Put a plate on it

Washington Times Online, 12/02/2011

In Virginia, the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) offers
an AFL-CIO plate with the slogan “Union Labor,” but drivers can’t purchase a
plate for “National Right to Work” whose headquarters are visible from the
Beltway in Northern Virginia. Maybe the Right to Work folks just have not gotten
around to it.

Republican Governors Slap Reins on Unions Undeterred by
Backlash

Bloomburg Business Week Online, 12/02/2011

Lawmakers began enacting such measures in the 1930s, after
federal legislation let employers that sign contracts with organized labor fire
workers who refuse to join unions, according to the National Right-to-Work Legal
Defense Foundation Inc. In 2001, Oklahoma became the 22nd state to add such
rules.

N.C. GOP presses Democrats to hire locals for convention

Washington Times Online, 12/04/2011

The Democratic National Committee’s pledge to use union
contractors at its 2012 convention in Charlotte, N.C., is getting pushback from
Republican state lawmakers who say the practice is undercutting local companies.

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