Another UAW Organizing Scheme

After their unsuccessful attempt to organize the Volkswagen automobile plant in Right To Work Chattanooga, UAW union officials are attempting another end-run around workers in Alabama. Patrick Rupinski as the story in tuscaloosa.com. The United Auto Workers adopted a new tactic this month in its drive to organize Southeastern auto plants. It formed a new…

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UAW Coercion in Right to Work Michgan

UAW union officials are stepping up their coercion and intimidation tactics now that Michigan’s Right to Work Law is allowing all workers to choose whether they wish to accept union representation. Kathleen Sulkowski, represented with free legal advice by the National Right to Work Legal Defense and Education Foundation, is challenging the requirement that union…

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A Reign of Terror Begins in Tennessee

Having lost a representation election bid at a Volkswagen plan in Tennessee, the UAW has begun aReign of Terrorat the Spring Hill plant in Right to Work Tennessee. Already an employee has been harassed and threatened for standing up for his Right to Refrain. Glenn Taubman, attorney for the National Right to Work Legal Defense…

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NILRR Clips October 10, 2014

Roy Exum: The UAW’s New Scab List The Chattanoogan Online, October 10, 2014 There is a special page that is popping up on union websites in right-to-work states such as Tennessee that is called “The Scab List,” according to an article in Washington. Glenn Taubmann, a lawyer at the National Right to Work Legal Defense…

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Pro-Union Monopoly New York Times Editors Flunk Constitutional Law

It can’t be a very common thing for the editors of the New York Times opinion pages to sound the alarm about a “dangerous” federal lawsuit that hasn’t even been heard yet. But the rabidly pro-Big Labor Times editors are evidently so upset about the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling this past summer in Harris v.…

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NILRR 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…

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NILRR Clips August 8, 2014

National Right to Work Supreme Court Victory Forces SEIU to Abandon Forced Dues Demands in Illinois, Minnesota, & Massachusetts nrtw.org, August 5, 2014 “Thanks to a National Right to Work Foundation-won victory at the U.S. Supreme Court, SEIU bosses across the country are being forced to back down from their forced union dues demands,” stated…

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NILRR Clips August 1, 2014

Labor leaders say from now on union organizing will be different People’s World Online, July 31, 2014 When he came out of a closed door session of the council here July 30 Larry Cohen, the chair of the AFL-CIO’s organizing committee, said that from here on out union organizing is going to take on a…

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NILRR Clipsheet, July 25, 2014

  It’s unions that treat nonmembers as ‘whipping boys’: Guest opinion Oregonlive.com, July 22, 2014 The normally calm Nesbitt states that the high court has made “whipping boys” of both unions and home care workers. I disagree. It is government employee unions that have been treating home care workers as whipping boys. Until the Supreme…

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Clipsheet Harris V. Quinn July 3, 2014

High Court’s Labor Ruling Likely to Weaken Union Clout in More States NewsMax Online, July 1, 2014 Messenger pointed out that two specific groups that were the targets of such “unionization schemes” are now protected. “The first group are personal-care providers,” he told Newsmax, “who provide home personal care to disabled, chronically ill, or elderly…

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