Perez’s Expected Nomination to Secretary of Labor Demands Scrutiny

Former NLRB member Peter Kirsanow examines the qualifications of the Obama Administrations’ Secretary of Labor nominee. Here’s the story on National Review Online. President Obama’s expected nomination of assistant attorney general Thomas Perez to be secretary of labor merits extremely close scrutiny by senators from both parties, for several concerns about Perez’s record as head…

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NILRR Weekly Newsclips February 22, 2013

    NLRB Sneak Attack on First Amendment Shopfloor.org, February 15, 2013 The NLRB is up to its sneaky ways and they are hoping to slip another precedent shattering decision under the radar.  According to the U.S. Supreme Court in the Beck decision, employees can object to a portion of union dues’ expenditures if the…

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Obama’s Big Labor Payback Includes Federal Employees

The Washington Examiner’s Sean Higgins examines the Executive Order the president signed in 2009 which created a council on Federal Labor-Management Relations, which gives federal government employee union officials a conduitto government agency heads over and above that of the monopoly bargaining contract. This is not only a Big Labor payback, butan unheard of ploy…

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Phyllis Schlafly – Union Political Spending in 2012

Phyllis Schlafly, on moralliberal.com comments on union bosses’ use of forced dues to elect President Obama to his second term.  Today we are inaugurating Barack Obama for his second term. Let’s talk about just one of the reasons he won his campaign for reelection. The union called SEIU was the top spender on Democratic campaigns this year,…

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Union Bosses Want To Keep Union Power To Themselves

Big Labor bosses don’t want the rank and file wresting more power from them, for fear they will lose their power to force workers, and to live the good life on forced union dues. Alec McGillis, tnr.com, misses this point telling the story of union “dissident” Jerry Tucker. It’s not surprising Tucker’s voice was drowned…

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Governor Defied Obama’s Threat Over Right To Work

Tim Skubick, Fox News 2 Political Analyst, reveals President Obama threatened to withhold federal funds if Governor Snyder signed Michigan’s Right to Work Law. Some asked out loud, doesn’t POTUS have more important things to do that lobby Gov. Rick Snyder on that? But lobby the president did. During an exclusive one-hour sit down on…

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NLRB Attempts Overturn of Supreme Knox Case

In an unprecedented power grab, Obama’s all-Democrat National Labor Relations Board, has ruled nonunion workers cannot request an accounting of where their union dures are going:The Washington Times has the story: But Big Labor may have won the battle that matters the most: the presidential election. In the last month, the White House has since…

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Governement Union Bosses Pocketing Taxpayers’ Paychecks

An Investors Business Daily editorial examines taxpayer-funded union boss salaries, who turn around and who these bosses are supporting. Taxpayers are forking out $4.8 million for 35 union officials at the Department of Transportation. But the beneficiary here isn’t the taxpayer, it’s President Obama, who is raking campaign cash from these unions. Unlike the average…

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Institute Refutes Obama’s Lame Comments About Right to Work With Facts

The National Institute’s figures give the lie to President Obama’s scornful comments about Right to Work.   Mark LaRochelle, Human Events, has the story:   The recent enactment of a right-to-work law in Michigan, of all places, provoked a remarkable comment from President Obama: “These so-called ‘right to work’ laws, they don’t have to do with economics;…

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