Posts Tagged ‘AFL-CIO’
AFL-CIO and MoveOn Team Up on GOTV
While the Democratic National Convention was not a temptation this year for the AFL-CIO, the union council has apparently teamed up with MoveOn to commandeer a get-out-the-vote effort. How many millions in forced dues will be funneled into this effort is unknown, and it’s unlikely the amount will ever come to light. What is sure…
Read MoreLabor Day – The Union Point of View
Alook at union membership this Labor Day finds that while all union officials have not lost their power to force workers into joining, private sector membership remains less than 7 percent, but government employee union membership is five times that rate. This announcement is not only dismal for workers, but for taxpayers as well. While…
Read MoreBarack Obama’s top 10 most outrageous Big Labor paybacks
Mark Mix, president of National Right to Work, explains President Obama’s Big Labor Paybacks The Daily Caller has the complete story: After Big Labor spent nearly $1 billion to get President Obama and his forced-unionism allies elected in 2008, Obama did not disappoint. Here is a breakdown of the top 10 most outrageous Big…
Read MoreUnions Find Plenty to do at Democrat Convention Despite Bosses’ Anger
Apparently unions are alive and well and working on the Democratic National Convention, which will take place next week in Charlotte, North Carolina. Despite all of the brouhaha over holding the convention in a Right to Work state, thousands of union workers are setting the convention up. Of course, Right to Work supporters already know…
Read MoreAFL-CIO PR Flack Lashes Out at Book Author
You Are Now Entering the Mallory Factor Spin Zone http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/ns/msnbc_tv-morning_joe/#48762499 Union kingpins are getting huffy about the success of Shadowbosses, the new book by journalist, editor and academic Mallory Factor and attorney Elizabeth Factor (the two are spouses). Shadowbosses investigates how special-interest statutes and executive orders at the state and federal levels have, starting more than…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Ignore Indiana Workers’ Mandate for Right to Work Law
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has helped Indiana workers to file amicus brief on behalf of the state of Indiana now that the AFL-CIO wolf is trying to blow the Right to Work Law down. Asheesh Agarwal writes, in the Library of Law and Liberty: Amidst a series of setbacks at both…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips – May 25, 2012
Union Bosses Set Forest Fire Captain’s Religious Rights Ablaze www.nrtw.org, May 21, 2012 With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, Susanville firefighter John Valentich filed the charge against the CDFF union with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission located in San Francisco. What’s…
Read MoreNew AFL-CIO General Counsel Believes All Workers Should Be Corralled Into Unions
Craig Becker’s cushy new job proves that his critics were right In his writings for academic and “labor studies” journals over the years, Craig Becker has made it plain time and again that he believes all American workers should be corralled into unions. It does not matter to him if an individual worker wants to…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips – May 4, 2012
“The Free Rider Argument is a Carefully Crafted Fraud” Legal Newsline, May 1, 2012 The IUOE asserts that the Indiana law violates the equal protection and contract clauses of the Constitution because it does not require nonunion employees to pay for bargaining. . . “The ‘free-rider’ argument is a carefully crafted fraud,” [National Right…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips – April 20, 2012
Mark Mix: Union muscling in to O.C. hospital Orange County Register, April 12, 2012 Unknown figures entering your workplace through the back door without identification. Harassing late night phone calls. Strangers blocking your driveway and studying your exact movements. These are not just the tactics of common criminals and thugs; they are also the tactics…
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