NILRR Weekly News Clips March 15, 2013

H.R. 1120, the Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act House of Representatives Education and Workforce Committee, March 13, 2013 Links to Foundation Story In January 2012, President Obama installed three so-called recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board while Congress was not in recess. In the wake of the president’s unprecedented action, efforts…

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Top Union Bosses File U.S. Supreme Court Briefs Contending That Government Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages Is Constitutionally Required

AFL-CIO Files Supreme Court Amicus Briefs to Support Marriage …   Last May, few Democrat party constituencies were quicker and more vociferous than the union brass in commending President Obama’s public endorsement of state court decisions and statutes that change the traditional definition of marriage by formally instituting same-sex unions.  The top bosses of the AFL-CIO,…

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Florida Union Bosses Indicted on Numerous Criminal Charges

Darryl Brice Payne, President, and Tianni Latrice Wade, his executive Assistant, were charged with numerous conspiracies to defraud the International Longshoremen’s Associaiton, Local 1526, in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Mark Young, Browardnetonline, has the story. Payne and Brown are both charged in Count 1 with conspiracy to steal money, funds, property, and other assets of the…

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Philadelphia Union Boss Boasts About Union Violence

The National Institute for Labor Relations Research has tracked violence incidents since 1975.  While much of their information comes from news media accounts, it is obvious that many incidents go unreported, even to police, out of fear of retaliation.  Union bosses  use tough economic times and free speech to exculpate union violence, their victims still suffer…

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Taste of the Future

John Podhoretz puts a new angle on the New York City bus strike, predicting other cities will experience the same sort of trouble as public sector union bosses lose more and more power.  Here’s the story in the New York Post.    There’s a major labor action going on in New York City, as the…

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Pennsylvania Union Bosses Fight Privatization

Pennsylvania United Food and Commercial Workers union officials are opposing legislation that will privatize liquor sales in Pennsylvania. Government control of liquor has been a plum victory for union bosses.They have given thousands in forced dues to both Republican and Democrat lawmakers to keepcarrying water for forced unionism.Eric Boehm, reason.com, has the story. The United…

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Union Bosses Continue to Threaten Worker Freedom

Michigan union bosses continue the threat of lawsuits against Michigan’s Right to Work Law. If they get their way, there will be no freedom for Michigan workers. The Detroit News has the story: Al Garrett , president of the Michigan-based American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council 25, vowed to get “retribution” for…

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“There Will Be Blood”: Union Violence in the Age of Obama

  From Michelle Malkin, a short overview on union violence, including the incidents which accompanied passage of Michigan’s Right to Work Law. Not so many moons ago, President Obama urged us all to “make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.” He Who Heals…

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