NILRR Weekly News Clips August 9, 2013
National Review Online, August 8, 2013
John Raudabaugh, a staff attorney with the National Right to Work Foundation, is representing Clark. He says the union failed to inform employees of their rights to opt out of membership and pay reduced dues so that their money wouldn’t go to the union’s political activities.
Guards allegedly forced into union day before right-to-work implemented
Fox News Online, August 5, 2013
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (NRTW), which fought to pass the state’s right-to-work legislation in December, is representing one of the workers at the center of the case. Foundation president Mark Mix said that the union agreement highlighted the behavior the law set out to prohibit.
Turmoil at the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB): Invalid Appointments Cause Serious Uncertainty
Tim McConville, National Law Review Online, August 7, 2013
With union membership rates at historic lows, President Barak Obama and the National Labor Relations Board (NRLB) have established by their actions that they are willing to wield power to improve the union organizing environment.
AFL-CIO to accept non-union members
Washington Examiner Online, August 8, 2013
“Will it dilute us? Look, here’s the way I look at it: What we’ve been doing the last 30 years hasn’t worked real well. We need to do things differently,†Trumka told USA Today. Only 11.3 percent of the US workforce is currently unionized, down from more than 20 percent in 1980. Only 6.6 percent of that is in the private sector, according to the Labor Department.