Posts Tagged ‘National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation’
Foundation Seeks to Bar NLRB Action Due to Lack of Quorum
While union officials tried to force nurse Jeanette Geary to pay dues or be fired, the NLRB upheld union officials’ right to do so. Ms. Geary appealed to the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation for help. The Foundation has taken her case and run with it. David L. Streck, Seyfarth Shaw, LLP, has…
Read MoreNRTW Foundation Recoups Forced Dues For Some Massachusetts Workers
Mark Mix, President of the National Right ot Work Legal Defense Foundation, comments on a victory for workers in Massachusetts. Ira Kantor has the story in the Boston Herald. Workers caught in a battle between a local union and Lynn-based Complete Cleaning Inc. have won a federal settlement from the union after officials illegally claimed…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Newsclips February 15, 2013
Workers win settlement against activist union Boston Herald.com, February 14, 2013 Workers caught in a battle between a local union and Lynn-based Complete Cleaning Inc. have won a federal settlement from the union after officials illegally claimed to have monopoly bargaining privileges over the employees, according to the National Right to Work Legal Defense…
Read MoreFoundation Case Involves Illinois Workers
Union officials called a strike. There were men who just wanted to work, and for them, the strike fines became even more expensive than honoring the picket line. Now, with free confidential legal aid from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, these men are fighting union officials for thousands and thousands in illegal…
Read MoreFight over unionism gains steam in Keystone State
Anthony Reidel, spokesman for the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, comments on efforts to bring a Right to Work Law through the Pennsylvania legislature. Despite little optimism, Pennsylvania workers have a chance at freedom with several Right to Work beillscurrently before the legislature. Brad Bumsted has the story in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. For…
Read MoreFoundation Attorney Comments on Obama’s Vacated Appointments
Since the NLRB appointments of Sharon Block and Richard Griffin are invalid, many cases decided under their tenure could be invalidated or render moot many decisions made by the Board. Bill McMorris, Washington Free Beacon, has the story: The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said the president’s 2012 appointment of two controversial members of the…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips January 25, 2013
Pay Up or Get Sued Washington Free Beacon, January 23, 2013 Steven Cook, president of the Michigan Education Association, circulated an email to local union officials and staff instructing them to monitor revenue streams in light of the right-to-work laws, which are set to go into effect on March 27, 2013. The law allows…
Read MoreWorker Advocate Files Brief in Dispute in Michigan Public Projects
Union bosses seek to uphold discriminatory system in awarding public contracts National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys have stepped in to promote freedom inthe latestMichigan union boss debacle, flaunting a law forbidding project labor agreements. Staff attorneys from the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation have filed a brief in support of…
Read MoreFederal Court Upholds Wisconsin Governor’s Public-Sector Unionism Reforms
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation President Mark Mix comments on federal court reaffirmation of Wisconsin’s government union reforms in Wisconsin, as reported in Green Mountain Scribes. With free legal assistance from the National Right to Work Foundation and the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, three Wisconsin public employees moved to intervene in…
Read MoreOp-Ed: Obama NLRB expands unions’ right to nonunion workers’ cash
Mark Mix in the Washington Examiner: Federal statutes grant Big Labor extraordinary power over individual workers. Except in right-to-work states, union officials can have workers fired for refusing to fork over forced union dues. But at least in theory, Big Labor cannot to use workers’ forced-dues money to advance a political agenda that those workers…
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