Posts Tagged ‘UAW’
UAW Tricks Volkswagen Workers
Desperate for new sources of dues revenue, UAW union officials offering a “trick” to Chattanooga Volkswagen workers. Even Labor Secretary Tom Perez is getting in on the act, declaring the U.S. will import German-style work councils. These co-called councils must operate under a union in the United States. And Volkswagen workers, having rejected the union…
Read MoreAnother 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…
Read MoreUAW 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…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreUAW Desperate to Keep Michigan Members
If a union is working for its members, those members will not want to resign. If it is not working for its members, they should not have to jump through hoops in order to resign. United Auto Workers Local 600, of Dearborn, Michigan, requires union members who wish to resign, to appear in person and…
Read MoreNILRR 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…
Read MoreNILRR 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…
Read MoreUAW President – No Concessions
New UAW president, Dennis Williams, facing declining membership and arecent failed organizing campaign, vows to tolerate no concessions in future negotiations. United Auto Worker rank and file members believeWilliams can turnthe union’s fortunes afterUAW bosses were defeated in anorganizing campaignat Volkswagen in Chattanooga,Tennessee.Managementremained neutral throughout the campaign.Theworkers, however, voted uinon representation down, a signifigant loss…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Clips June 13, 2014
NASA Employee Given the Runaround by Own Union Washington Free Beacon, June 11, 2014 Walsh and the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation (NRTWLDF) are now fighting to overturn the technicality that eliminated the possibility of an election. Walsh’s attorney, Bruce Cameron, filed a brief to the three-member FLRA challenging the regional director’s decision.…
Read MoreNLRB Certifies Vote Rejecting UAW
Tennessee’s Chattanooga Volkswagen plant workers won a victory as the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) certifed election results from a February vote which rejected representation by the United Auto Workers union. National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys represented workers who just wanted to work free from union boss interference. Melanie Trottman has the…
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