NILRR Clipsheet June 19, 2015

Most of U.S. Manufacturing GDP Now Emanates From Right to Work States www.nrtwc.org, June 15, 2015 According to U.S. Commerce Department data released on June 10, last year a record 47.9% of the entire U.S. manufacturing output, measured in current dollars, occurred in states that had prohibited compulsory union dues and fees. (A link to…

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Right To Work At Risk

Are Right to Work Laws at risk? National Right to Work president Mark Mix and others testified just last week at a hearing in the Education and the Workforce Committee that Right to Work laws in 25 states could be at risk, as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) argues to institute a rule allowing…

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NILRR News Clips June 05, 2015

11 Million Workers Are Forced To Pay Union Dues: Congress Should Help Them The Daily Caller Online, June 03, 2015 The National Right to Work Act (S. 391/H.R. 612) was introduced in both chambers of Congress earlier this year. This easy to read, one-page bill does not add one single word to federal law, it…

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NLRB Flaunts Right to Work Laws

The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) Chairman and General Counsel will both be called before the Senate to answer questions aboutrecent decisionsthat clearly favor Big Labor.Michael J. Lotito has the story in Workplace Policy Update. During a May 14 Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing to discuss the National Labor Relations Board’s FY 2016 budget, NLRB Chairman…

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NILRR News Clips May 08, 2015

NLRB Schedules Fifth Vote to Decertify Local UAW Washington Free Beacon Online, May 07, 2015 Alabama workers are being forced to take a fifth vote to kick out a local UAW chapter despite giving the union the boot in February. Top N.J. lawmaker helping embattled ironworkers union rebuild as criminal case wanes nj.com, May 01,…

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Ambush Elections Favoring Unions

Joe Trauger of Shopfloor.org, explains how the Ambush Election regulation is working as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)intended, in favor of union bosses. If anyone had a question about how the National Labor Relations Board decision on Specialty Healthcare and the recent implementation of the Ambush Election regulation would play out, we got an…

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Workers Challenge NLRB Ambush Rule

The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundationhas helped 3 workers file a suit against the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) seeking to prevent new rules which wouldrailroad workers into union representation. Three construction employees have joined a federal lawsuit challenging the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) recently-enacted regulations that further give union organizers the…

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Unions Get Free Pass With NLRB

Apparently the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)has a faulty memory. A posting on National Law Review says it all. On April 17, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals published a decision, Weigand v. NLRB, in which it reviewed the NLRB’s dismissal of an employee’s charge against a union based on the union’s failure to remove…

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NILRR Clips April 17, 2015

NLRB takes on right-to-work – Finance to hold hearing on TPA today politico.com, April 17, 2015 NLRB TAKES ON RIGHT-TO-WORK: The National Labor Relations Board’s newest target is the right-to-work movement. In a call for briefs yesterday, the agency said it may allow a union to collect a fee from a non-member in a right-to-work…

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NILRR News Clips February 20, 2015

VW recognizes anti-UAW worker group ACE at Tennessee plant Reuters.com, February 16, 2014 Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) said on Monday it had recognized a new group called the American Council of Employees to represent workers at its auto assembly plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in addition to the United Auto Workers. The ACE is an alternative to…

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