Posts Tagged ‘Monopoly Bargaining’
Organized Labor Looking to Defeat Ohio’s Governor in 2014
Vindy.com Fresh from the heady defeat of Toledo Mayor Mike Bell,Ohio labor union bosses are setting their sights on the 2014 gubernatorial race. Bellsupported Governor John Kasich’s attempt to restrict government employee union monopoly bargaining in Ohio. While the attempt to restrict monopoly bargaining for government employees was voted down by Ohio citizens, Big Labor…
Read MorePublic Servants Have Far Fewer Opportunities For Advancement in States With Pervasive Government Unionism
Most Americans today believe, with ample justification, that government is too big and tries to do too much, and therefore it may seem surprising at first that, according to new and revised data from the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) published at the end of September, total state and local public employment…
Read MorePennsylvania Teacher Union Officials Hurting Students
Matt Brouillette of the Commonwealth Foundation, demonstrates how teacher union officials are hurting students by preventing school reform, and pressing more and more teachers into paying for agendas they do not believe in. But, then, Pennsylvania allows union officials to collect dues from teachers in agency shop districts. The story is in The Hill. Teachers’…
Read MoreAuto Workers Union Official Admits: If Volkswagen’s Chattanooga Employees Hear Both Sides of the Story, Most Will Oppose Unionization
UAW hopes to get recognition at Chattanooga … – The Tennessean Why is it that top bosses of the United Auto Workers union are pressuring Volkswagen executives to recognize the UAW as the “exclusive” bargaining agent over employees at the firm’s facility in Chattanooga, Tenn., solely on the basis of union “authorization” cards signed by…
Read MoreUnion Bosses Monopoly-Bargaining Privileges a Means of Controlling NonMembers
Fact Sheet: Union Monopoly Bargaining Contracts Hurtful In a fact sheet now available for reading or downloading from the National Institute for Labor Relations Research web site, I explain why vast numbers of union nonmembers and reluctant union members who are legally compelled to accept the officers of a single union as their monopoly-bargaining agents…
Read MoreForced Union Fees For Grievances Aren’t Remotely Fair
Right-to-Work Debate Heats Up in Missouri – The Missourian: State … As I often point out in blog posts on this web page, the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) hands union officials a number of extraordinary special privileges vis-a-vis employees as well as employers. Most fundamentally, union bosses are authorized by the NLRA to negotiate with businesses employment contracts…
Read MoreGovernment Union Bosses vs. Customer Service
Labor Unions Against the Public Interest The DC Metro system is still tripping up – Washington Post Recently, the detrimental impact of government union monopoly bargaining on public transportation was highlighted by a disruptive strike against the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), which is supposed to serve San Francisco and its surrounding regions. Hundreds of thousands of…
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 MoreIt’s Not About the Students; Not Even Close
Now that Mayor Emanuel must close down some Chicago schools because of last year’s teacher strike, which added a Herculean burden to the district’s $1 million deficit, the shoe is on the other foot for teacher union officials. Now they are now complaining because some of their members will be laid off due to the…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips May 24, 2013
Tennessee helps lead resurgence in U.S. manufacturing jobs blogs.tennessean.com, May 23, 2013 Tennessee was among the leaders in U.S. manufacturing resurgence during the first quarter of 2013, with a nearly 5 percent gain in jobs over the same period last year, according to a report from IHS Global Insight. Left Blames NLRB…
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