Posts Tagged ‘Big Labor’
New Labor Scheme for Bernie Sanders
Labor for Bernie intends to engage rank and file union members to get out the vote for Bernie Sanders using forced dues to realize their goals.But it seems that only union bosses are currently engaged in the campaign. Mario Vasquez has the story on In These Times. Labor for Bernie, a new nationwide network for…
Read MoreNLRB Flaunts Right to Work Laws
The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) Chairman and General Counsel will both be called before the Senate to answer questions aboutrecent decisionsthat clearly favor Big Labor.Michael J. Lotito has the story in Workplace Policy Update. During a May 14 Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to discuss the National Labor Relations Board’s FY 2016 budget, NLRB Chairman…
Read MoreNILRR Clips August 15, 2014
Poll Shows State Supports Philosophy Behind ‘Right-To-Work’ ctnewsjunkie.com, August 15, 2014 A poll of 500 residents, conducted in July by Google Consumer Surveys, found that 75 percent of respondents said “yes” when asked: “Should employees have the right to decide, without force or penalty, whether to join or leave a labor union?” Wisconsin public sector…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Reconsider Obamacare
After throwing their influence, and millions inforced dues, into the passage ofObamacare, union bosses are now rethinking that effort in light to the massive cost increases which have accompaniedits implementation. A Washington Examiner editorial takes a look at this new wrinkle. Union members could be liable for union bosses’ mistaken assumptions. Millions of Americans have…
Read MoreNLRB Approves Pro-Union “Ambush Election” Final Rule
Once again the Obama National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has taken up the “ambush” rule, allowing union bosses free rein to do whatever it takes to win a representation election. Karl Hororwitz has the story in his blog at National Legal and Policy Center. A fair election campaign operates on the principle of a “level…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Newsclips, March 21, 2014
Bus company cuts ties with union in Spring Grove Hanover (PA) Evening Sun, March 14, 2014 More than half the drivers of Teamsters Local 776 signed a petition asking that they no longer be represented by the union, according to Aaron Solem, legal counsel for drivers circulating the petition. That, he said, is an acceptable…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips March 07, 2014
The Really Big Money? Not the Kochs Wall Street Journal Online, March 6, 2014 It’s an extraordinary thing, in a political age obsessed with campaign money, that nobody scrutinizes the biggest, baddest, “darkest” spenders of all: organized labor. The IRS is muzzling nonprofits; Democrats are “outing” corporate donors; Jane Mayer is probably working…
Read MoreHofstra University Professor Calls for “Civil Disobedience” to Save Big Labor
University Professor Alan Singer, recommends breaking laws in light toBig Labor’s declining membership, and the Harris v. Quinn Supreme Court decision, inhuffingtonpost.com The entire organized labor movement is in a prolonged state of decline, especially in the private sector as industrial jobs are shipped overseas and retail employers like Walmart and McDonalds remain staunchly anti-union.…
Read MoreUnion Political Power Stronger Than Ever
An editorial from the Orange County Register outlines why Big Labor must rely on its political power. Despite favoritism from the Obama administration – privileging the United Auto Workers over secured creditors in the GM and Chrysler bankruptcies; steering stimulus funds towards unions; taking legal action against Boeing for opening a new plant in right-to-work…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips, February 7, 2014
Worker Advocate Reacts to Volkswagen’s Request for NLRB Union Election www.nrtw.org, February 3, 2014 Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation, issued the following statement after the announcement today that Volkswagen America has petitioned the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for a rapid-fire United Auto Workers (UAW) unionization election in its Chattanooga…
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