Posts Tagged ‘AFSCME’
NILRR Weekly News Clips December 27, 2013
Federal Labor Law Is Anti-Free Speech NILRR, December 25, 2013 Now imagine that, after Smith has been formally seated on the council, you attend a public meeting sponsored by the mayor, as you always have in the past. But when you start to state your opinion about a current issue, the mayor stops you.…
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One Breach of Basic Legal Principles Doesn’t Warrant Another www.nilrr.org, December 15, 2013 Unfortunately, in the U.S. federal labor policy routinely breaches the personal right to choose one’s own representative. If a majority of the front-line employees in a workplace sign authorization cards indicating they wish to be represented by a particular union on compensation…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips, December 06, 2013
Unions Bring Chicago Thuggery to California, Oregon Hospitals Breitbart.com, December 02, 2013 The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is attempting to force hospitals in California and Oregon to allow it to organize workers by using ballot initiatives that would cap executive pay and charges to patients, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday. The SEIU…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Newsclips, November 08, 2013
Group files complaint about Unified’s vote to negotiate with unions Kenosha News Online, November 08, 2013 According to a statement from the Institute, the complaint was filed on behalf of Kristi Lacroix, who they identify as a district taxpayer. Lacroix is a former teacher at Lakeview Technology Academy who left her job this…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips August 23, 2013
Ohio Governor Has No Credible Excuse For Waving the White Flag on Right to Work August 17th, 2013 An Ohio Prescription for GOP: Lower Taxes, More Aid for Poor Scientific polling ind[…] Cities With Greatest Bankruptcy Risks Overwhelmingly Located in Forced-Unionism States August 19th, 2013 20 Cities That May Face Bankruptcy After Detroit – Newsmax.com Earlier…
Read MoreMaryland’s Fair Share Act is misnamed
Marta Mossberg of the Baltimore Sun shows why the Fair S hare Act is misnamed. The only people who call forced dues “fair share” are union officials. Contrary to union officials’ statements at the time of the law’s passage that the money would be targeted to improve services for all employees, the tax records show…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Clipsheet June 1, 2013
NILRR FACT SHEET May 2013 Right to Work States Benefit From Faster Growth, Higher Real Purchasing Power – May 2013 Update SHERK: A union of one Washington Times Online, May 24, 2013 The latest example is Minnesota. The legislature just passed a law unionizing day-care providers at the behest of the American Federation…
Read MoreSherk: A union of One; AFSCME Pulls a Fast One on Daycare Workers
James Sherk, in the Washington Times, makes excellent points about the political power unions possess, passing a law that would allow self-employed workers to unionize. That’s correct – self-employed daycare workers. Desperate times call for desperate measures, but the union movement has taken this saying to a new level. It has reacted to…
Read MoreA Baltimore jail scandal aided by union politics
Reading like a 1970’s report on the Teamsters, Charles Lane reports on AFSCME’s role in the Baltimore City Detention Center scandal, involving gangs and corruption, financed by mandatory dues checkoff and compulsory unionism. Here’s the story in the Washington Post. Even by the standards of America’s troubled jails and prisons, the scandal at the Baltimore…
Read MoreCan a Faithful Catholic Belong to a Union?
Can a Faithful Catholic Today Belong, in Good Conscience, to Any Large, U.S.-Based Union? By Stan Greer (click to download pdf copy) Few Democratic Party constituencies were quicker and more vociferous than the union brass in commending President Barack Obama’s announcement on May 9, 2012, endorsing state court decisions and statutes that change the traditional…
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