Posts Tagged ‘Monopoly Bargaining’
NLRB 3-0, Exclusivity a Thing of Value, No Forced Fees
Who benefits from the federal labor laws that authorize union officials to act as the “exclusive” (monopoly) bargaining agents of all the front-line employees in a business with regard to their pay, benefits, and work rules? Early this year, three of President Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) appointees were confronted with this question.…
Read MoreGovernment Union Bosses Battle to Keep Massachusetts Teachers Under Their Control
From the 2000-2001 through the 2015-2016 school years, enrollment in charter schools across the U.S. skyrocketed from 400,000 to 2.9 million. During the 2015-2016 academic year alone, more than 400 new charter schools opened. Charters are public institutions that furnish their services to K-12 schoolchildren free of charge, but are subject to fewer regulations than…
Read MoreLose Your Freedom, Then Forfeit Part of Your Paycheck?
For decades, Right to Work supporters have known government-authorized “exclusive” union representation turns dissenting employees into Big Labor’s “captive passengers.” The employees’ personal liberty is denied. Legislation that grants agents of private organizations, known as unions, to exclusively negotiate with a business or public employer on matters of employees’ pay, benefits, and work rules takes…
Read MoreBlame Monopolistic Unionism For Port Authority’s Outrageous Fees
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. a joint venture between the Empire and Garden States, controls a substantial share of the transportation infrastructure in the New York City region, including bridges, tunnels, airports and seaports. As Steven Malanga of the Manhattan Institute reports in a new article for the MI-publishedCity Journal, today…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet April 22, 2016
Judge Rules Wisconsin’s Right To Work Statute Illegal — Now What? Forbes.com, April 20, 2016 RJL helped with article So, why is RTW illegal in Wisconsin? Judge Foust states that under RTW, “a free-rider problem is born – the ability of nonmembers to refuse to pay for services unions are compelled to provide by…
Read MoreJudge Berates Obama Labor Board For Violating Workers’ Privacy
Right to Work advocates are hopeful that a federal judge’s willingness to stand up to union-label President Barack Obama’s National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) bureaucrats will help steel the spines of congressional leaders to do the same. For well over a year now, the National Right to Work Committee and its members have been urging…
Read MoreStatement on Deadlocked Supreme Court Friedrichs Ruling
National Right to Work Foundation Releases Statement on Deadlocked Supreme Court Friedrichs Ruling 4-4 decision leaves public sector union officials’ forced-dues powers in place Washington, DC (March 29, 2016)– Patrick Semmens, vice president of the National Right to Work Foundation, issued the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s 4-4 Friedrichs ruling: “While we are disappointed…
Read MoreMonopoly Bargaining Compromises Cybersecurity
Jason Chaffetz,Utah, Chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Congressman Gary Palmer of Alabama, describe how monopoly bargaining rules undermine the federal government’s cybersecurity in the Washington Times Online. The federal government’s most important responsibility is to protect this nation and its citizens. That includes protecting against cyberattacks. Recall…
Read MoreUnions and Friedrichs v. CTA
The Supreme Court case, Friedrichs v.California Teachers Association, could ensure Right to Work privileges for all government union employees. Education Intelligence Agency’s Mike Antonucci quotes Allison Porter of the Murphy Institute’s thoughts on what teacher union officials will do about the Friedrichs v. CTA decision, whatever the outcome. On the pages of the Murphy Institute…
Read MoreDockworker Slowdown Costs $77 Million
Breakdowns in negotiation of a monopoly bargaining contract has resulted in a slowdown at West Coast ports that has lasted more than a year. Washington state has lost approximately $77 million in business due to the slowdown. Andrew Soergel has the story in US News and World Report Online. “This value represents the sum of…
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