Posts Tagged ‘Alabama’
NILRR Right to Work Clipsheet February 19, 2016
Union Fees Case is Not Over Legal team plans to move for Friedrichs case to be re-heard Center for Individual Rights www.cir-usa.org, February 17, 2016 The Court could decide on its own to set the case for re-argument next term. If instead it issues a 4-4 decision, the lawyers for Friedrichs plan to file…
Read More‘Members-Only Unions Are Not a Theoretical Construct or Historical Remnant’
An issue brief published early this month by the New York City-based and Big Labor-“friendly” Century Foundation (see the link below to read the whole thing) discusses a labor-relations topic that, as coauthors Moshe Marvit and Leigh Anne Schriever acknowledge up front, is unfamiliar to many Americans who are otherwise knowledgeable about unions and how…
Read MoreNILRR Clipsheet July 17, 2015
Federal Union Lawyers Rediscover Freedom of Non-Association National Institute for Labor Relations Research, July 16, 2015 In November, 2011, Jarman, a security guard at Red River Army Depot (RRAD) in Texarkana, Texas, applied for membership in Local 2189 of the NFFE union after being promoted to a job that put him under that union’s “exclusive”…
Read MoreAre Bosses Endangering Unions’ Relevancy?
Mary Kramer, Crain’s Detroit Business News, examines whether union bosses’ tactics are rendering unions more and more irrelevant. In a couple of weeks, the United Auto Workers and Detroit automakers will kick off contract talks to replace four-year pacts that expire Sept. 14. As Dave Barkholz has reported for our sibling publication Automotive News, the…
Read MoreUS Steel Moves to Right Work State
U. S. Steel is establishing two more plants in Alabama, a Right to Work state. This is an example of another big industry leaving a forced-dues state for the freedom of a Right to Work state,another industry leavingnon-right to Work state. James Anderson has the story in Engineering.com. These investments will directly support U. S.…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips August 1, 2013
Holden postal worker files complaint after dues still taken from paycheck despite quitting union Bangor Daily News Online, August 2, 2013 She said she could not discuss details of the charge because of the ongoing investigation. Staff attorneys from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation provided Johnson with free legal assistance and helped…
Read MoreMike Antonucci Looks at Membership Numbers After Officials “. . .Tried Every Tactic Imaginable”
Mike Antonucci Looks at Membership Numbers After Officials “. . .Tried Every Tactic Imaginable” NEA hada total of 3,166,761 members of all types, of whom 2,807,332 were active and employed in the public school system. Be aware that these are individual souls, not full-time equivalents. Forty-four state affiliates lost active members in 2010-11. The following…
Read MoreExclusive: Union Will Seek to Organize Airbus in Right to Work Alabama
While IAM bosses may try to organize Airbus workers in a few years, Alabama workers do NOT have to join or support a union in order to get or keep a job. Ted Reed tells all in The Street . “We have every intention to try to organize the facility,” said IAM President Tom Buffenbarger, in an interview…
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