Posts Tagged ‘Right to Work’
NILRR Right to Work Clipsheet
Unions Are Choking Reform Efforts At The VA, Says Committee Chairman The Daily Caller Online, October 22, 2015 There are a quarter of a million union members that work for the Department of Veterans Affairs,” he told The Washington Free Beacon. “They have a stranglehold not only on the agency but the leadership there…
Read MoreNILRR Right to Work Clipsheet October 16, 2015
ABC Driver Discriminated Against by Teamsters Union Bosses Finally Awarded Back Pay After Union Appeals Fail nrtw.org, October 14, 2015 After six years of legal maneuvering, Teamster Local 509 union officials are finally paying a worker more than $55,000 in pay he lost when it prevented him from working. The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals…
Read MorePA Big Labor Spends in PA Against Right to Work
Big Labor officials arespending moneyon Pennsylvania’s State Supreme Court races in early November,attempting to keep forced dues alive and wellfor the Keystone State. John Finnerty has the story in the Meadeville Tribune Online. Believing political influence of the state Supreme Court hangs in the balance of Nov. 3 polling, labor unions have donated heavily to…
Read MoreChicago Archbishop Has Duty to Defend ‘Divinely Established Rights of the Individual’
There is no doubt about the fact that Catholic social teaching going back to Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891) has strongly endorsed the individual employee’s right to join a union and, in many cases, actively encouraged employees to form labor associations. Rerum Novarum itself states, for example, that “to enter into a [trade…
Read MoreNILRR Clipsheet September 11, 2015
A chance to make union dues a choice The Supreme Court could end a corrupt practice of public-sector labor Washington Times Online, September 6, 2015 Mark Mix Thanks largely to favors granted by pliant politicians, government union officials enjoy extraordinary special privileges and wield immense political clout. This influence often comes at the expense of…
Read MoreThis Labor Day, celebrate the Right to Work advantage
If you’re reading this, congratulations! You’re likely one of the millions of Americans living in one of 25 Right to Work states, including Oklahoma. You might not know it from Right to Work opponents’ heated rhetoric, but Right to Work laws aren’t hard to understand. They simply ensure that no employee can be forced to…
Read MoreNILRR Clipsheet September 04, 2015
Waste Management Worker Illegally Threatened by Operating Engineers Union Official: Join or Be Fired nrtw.org, August 31, 2015 John Woodall, a California worker, has filed federal unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) against International Union of Operating Engineers Local 3 (IUOE) after a union official threatened Woodall with an ultimatum…
Read MoreNILRR Clipsheet August 28, 2015
Symposium: Will the Court continue to recognize a distinction between bargaining with government and lobbying the government? SCOTUSblog.com, August 25, 2015 Leaving aside the positive impact on public policy of reducing the unique power and financial resources of public-sector unions, the Friedrichs decision will have profound implications for the First Amendment rights of millions of…
Read MoreNLRB 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…
Read MoreAnother Kentucky Right to Work County
Boone County becomes Kentucky’s 11th county to pass a local Right to Work law. Don Weber has the story on mycn2.com. Boone County is the largest county in the state to pass such an ordinance, and the first in Northern Kentucky. The ordinance allows individuals to choose not to join a union and pay dues…
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