Posts Tagged ‘UAW’
NILRR Clipsheet, April 18, 2014
Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty Flouts IRS List Demand New American, April 18, 2015 “There is no legitimate reason for the IRS to know who donates to Campaign for Liberty,” the organization’s Communications Director Megan Stiles told the Washington Examiner in an e-mail April 15. “We believe the First Amendment is on our side…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Clipsheet March 28, 2014
Pro-Union Monopoly Statutes Menace U.S. Cities www.nrtw.org, March 27, 2014 In addition to affirming the Motor City’s insolvency, Judge Rhodes made it clear that Detroit has the legal authority to reduce public employee pension benefits negotiated by government union chiefs who have for decades wielded monopoly-bargaining power under Michigan law. Reflecting on last month’s…
Read MoreThis Chart Proves Unions Cannot Offer Job Security
The title says it all. Economist Allison Schrager uses the UAW representation election failure at the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volkswagen plant to illustrate how union bosses can no longer ensure job security for members. Another so-called “union benefit” goes down the way of the dinosaurs. Check out her article in qz.com. A few weeks ago, the…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Newsclips, March 21, 2014
Bus company cuts ties with union in Spring Grove Hanover (PA) Evening Sun, March 14, 2014 More than half the drivers of Teamsters Local 776 signed a petition asking that they no longer be represented by the union, according to Aaron Solem, legal counsel for drivers circulating the petition. That, he said, is an acceptable…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips March 14, 2014
Right-to-work bill dies in Kentucky House committee wave3.com, March 14, 2014 A Kentucky House committee’s vote killed right-to-work legislation for the rest of the year, but both sides say the issue will play a key role in November’s elections. Is It Really News to UAW Bosses That Their Political Partisanship Offends Many Workers? www.nilrr.org…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips March 07, 2014
The Really Big Money? Not the Kochs Wall Street Journal Online, March 6, 2014 It’s an extraordinary thing, in a political age obsessed with campaign money, that nobody scrutinizes the biggest, baddest, “darkest” spenders of all: organized labor. The IRS is muzzling nonprofits; Democrats are “outing” corporate donors; Jane Mayer is probably working…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips, February 28, 2014
Hofstra Univ. professor calls for “aggressive, illegal actions” in response to Harris vs. Quinn Illinoisreviewtypepad.com, February 23, 2014 CHICAGO – Yesterday, Dr. Alan Singer, a Professor of Secondary Education at Hofstra University, called for “aggressive, illegal actions” as “the only way” to save America’s labor movement. His statement was read as a not-so-veiled threat…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Newsclips February 21, 2014
Clock ticking for UAW to file objection in VW Chattanooga vote Times Free Press Online, February 19, 2014 Raudabaugh, who does work for the anti-union National Right to Work Foundation, said if the board holds a hearing on an objection to the election, it could take months to resolve, he said. “Should the board say…
Read MoreVW workers reject UAW organizing drive at Tenn. plant
The workers at Volkswagen, Chattanooga, have spoken. Gabe Nelson has the story in Automotive News. Workers at Volkswagen AG’s plant here voted to reject UAW representation, dealing a devastating loss to a union that saw the Tennessee factory as its best chance to gain a toehold at a foreign-owned assembly plant in the South.Results of…
Read MoreTN taxpayers subsidize UAW outrage at VW plant
Tennessee taxpayers have poured more than a half-billion dollars in incentives into the Volkswagen plant. Matt Patterson tells the story in the Tenneseean.com. In fact, the more than a half-billion dollars in subsidies that the company received to come to Tennessee amounted to the “richest incentive package – and perhaps the most government assistance and…
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