Posts Tagged ‘UAW’
NILRR Weekly News Clips, February 7, 2014
Worker Advocate Reacts to Volkswagen’s Request for NLRB Union Election www.nrtw.org, February 3, 2014 Mark Mix, President of the National Right to Work Foundation, issued the following statement after the announcement today that Volkswagen America has petitioned the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for a rapid-fire United Auto Workers (UAW) unionization election in its Chattanooga…
Read MorePyongyang, Tennessee?
German union boss Detlef Wetzel of Germany’s IG Metall, compared nonunionized Southern states to North Korea. Huh? Yes. Holman Jenkins, Jr., has the story in the Wall Street Journal. North Korea? That’s the analogy Germany’s top labor leader recently applied to the American South because, in the American South, nonunion auto plants are permitted…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips January31, 2013
Unions lash out at ObamaCare regs The Hill Online, January 29, 2014 In a letter dated Monday, leaders of major unions told Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that proposed regulations for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would do nothing to help union health plans. Local Transit Worker…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips December 27, 2013
Federal Labor Law Is Anti-Free Speech NILRR, December 25, 2013 Now imagine that, after Smith has been formally seated on the council, you attend a public meeting sponsored by the mayor, as you always have in the past. But when you start to state your opinion about a current issue, the mayor stops you.…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips, December 20, 2013
One Breach of Basic Legal Principles Doesn’t Warrant Another www.nilrr.org, December 15, 2013 Unfortunately, in the U.S. federal labor policy routinely breaches the personal right to choose one’s own representative. If a majority of the front-line employees in a workplace sign authorization cards indicating they wish to be represented by a particular union on compensation…
Read MoreFoundation Helps Auto Workers in Tennessee
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys are taking up the cause of auto workers who have been railroaded into union membership by the organizing activities taking place at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant. Chloe Morrison has the story on nooga.com Volkswagen employees have been relatively quiet lately on the issue of Volkswagen unionization, but…
Read MoreUAW and GM Strangely Silent on GM Stock Sale
Sean Higgins comments on the notable lack of response fromthe UAW and the AFL-CIO. The sale meant that taxpayers were losing $10 billion, so some extra justification was necessary. GM officials have taken a similar stance even as they say they are glad to be out of receivership. One group that was noticeably quiet was…
Read MoreBig Labor Payback Was Worthwhile Only to Big Labor
Mark Tapscott, Washington Examiner, reviews the federal government’s decision to rid itself of all of its General Motors stock, and examines the worth of this huge Big Labor Payback by the current administration. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced yesterday that the federal government has sold its remaining shares of General Motors stock. “With the final…
Read MoreWhere Has All The GM Bailout Gone?
Taxpayers will be left holding the bag on the Big Labor bailout of GM andunion officials. Realclearmarkets.com has the story. Federal Meddling: Remember the promise that taxpayers would get back every dollar taken from them and dumped into the General Motors bailout? The promise is coming up about $10 billion short. All told, GM ended…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips, November 22, 2013
Regent Law Students Participate in Two Supreme Court Cases Networkedblogs.com, November 20, 2013 Through the Right to Work Practicum at Regent University School of Law, Regent’s law students have recently had the incredible opportunity to participate in not one, but two cases being heard by the United States Supreme Court. The United States Supreme…
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