Posts Tagged ‘National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation’
NILRR 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…
Read MoreJanuary Issue of Labor Watch Highlights Two Important Supreme Court Cases Concerning Employees’ Personal Freedom
The January edition of Labor Watch, published by the Washington, D.C.-based Capital Research Center, features a lead article and a sidebar by Institute Senior Research Associate Stan Greer regarding two important cases recently heard by the U.S. Supreme Court and related underlying issues in federal and state labor policy. In both cases, employees seeking to…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips January31, 2013
Unions lash out at ObamaCare regs The Hill Online, January 29, 2014 In a letter dated Monday, leaders of major unions told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that proposed regulations for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would do nothing to help union health plans. Local Transit Worker…
Read MoreStudy reveals SEIU Took Millions from Caregivers
Millions of forced dues dollars have been siphoned into the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) from 2008 until 2013. Daniel Greenfield has the story in Frontpagemag.com. Elections aren’t cheap. Neither are bribes. The money has to come from somewhere. And “somewhere” is often places that even the politicians of the old gangland Chicago wouldn’t have…
Read MoreBackground on Harris v. Quinn Supreme Court Case
National Right to Work President Mark Mix reviews the background on the upcoming Harris v. Quinn Supreme Court case, in the Washington Times. Today, more than 18 states have laws on the books explicitly requiring all or some public employees to pay dues or fees to a union they may not want as a condition…
Read MoreNRTW Foundation Argues Another Supreme Court Case
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorney, Bill Messenger, explainsthe latest Supreme Court case brought by that organization.Bill McMorris has the story in the Washington Free Beacon. The Supreme Court will hear arguments about forced unionization among government workers on Tuesday in a case that could greatly curtail powerful labor groups. At issue is…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips, December 20, 2013
One Breach of Basic Legal Principles Doesn’t Warrant Another www.nilrr.org, December 15, 2013 Unfortunately, in the U.S. federal labor policy routinely breaches the personal right to choose one’s own representative. If a majority of the front-line employees in a workplace sign authorization cards indicating they wish to be represented by a particular union on compensation…
Read MoreFoundation Helps Auto Workers in Tennessee
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys are taking up the cause of auto workers who have been railroaded into union membership by the organizing activities taking place at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant. Chloe Morrison has the story on nooga.com Volkswagen employees have been relatively quiet lately on the issue of Volkswagen unionization, but…
Read MoreSupreme Court Dismisses Union-Backed Petition to Overturn Organizing Case
Right to Work Foundation-won Eleventh Circuit ruling stands, putting at risk backroom deals between companies and aggressive union organizers Washington, DC (December 10, 2013) – Today, the United States Supreme Court announced that it “dismissed as improvidently granted” a union appeal of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in Mulhall v. UNITE…
Read MoreThe Future of Labor Relations
National Right to Work Legal Foundation Attorney John Raudabaugh comments on how the recent packing of the National Labor Relations Board with pro-union appointees is likely to affect the decisions coming from that board. Andrew Stiles has the story in National Review Online. John Raudabaugh, a labor-law professor at Ave Maria University who served on…
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