NILRR Right to Work Clips June 21, 2018

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After Three Decades Couple Prevails over Union freebeacon.com, June 17, 2018 The Pirlotts sought out a lawyer locally to defend their right to withdraw but could not find one to take the case. That’s when they turned to the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation to fight the union’s handling of the withdrawal petition.…

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NILRR Right to Work News June 15, 2018

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Will Repeal Right to Work Law, Michigan Governor Candidate Vows heartland.org, June 12, 2018 Gretchen Whitmer, a candidate in the Michigan Democratic Party gubernatorial primary, says she will work to repeal the state’s right-to-work (RTW) law, if selected by her party and elected in November. Stan Greer, a senior research associate for the National Institute…

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NILRR Right to Work News April 06, 2018

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Audience in Reading hears both sides of right-to-work issue wfmz.com, April 04, 2018 The panel consisted of Stephen Herzenberg, executive director, Keystone Research Center; Stanley T. Greer, senior research associate, National Institute for Labor Relations Research; Robert Orzechowski, expert on human resources issues and current chief operating officer for Lancaster Cancer Center; and Karmelia Sams,…

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NILRR Right to Work Clips

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Legal group calls for inspection of NLRB inspector general Washington Examiner Online, March 29, 2018 “The OIG issued a report finding that an NLRB official violated the Standards of Ethical Conduct for Employees of the executive branch because he improperly disclosed nonpublic deliberative information. We believe that, by disclosing privileged deliberative, pre-decisional communications in his…

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NILRR Right to Work News March 23, 2018

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Featured Video – I Was a Union President. Now I Support Right to Work capitalresearch.org, March 20, 2018 Ben Johnson spent the last decade as treasurer and then president of AFT Vermont, the state affiliate of the American Federation of Teachers, the second-largest teachers union in the country. For three of those years, Johnson also…

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NILRR Right to Work News Clips March 16, 2018

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Right to Work States Hold 2:1 Job-Growth Advantage Over Forced Union States CNS News Online, March 14, 2018 The 22 states that already had Right to Work laws prohibiting forced union dues and fees on the books back in 2007 enjoyed overall household employment growth of 8.8 percent over the next year. Meanwhile, aggregate employment…

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NILRR Right to Work News Clips February 23, 2018

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Does the NLRB’s Inspector General Have a Double Standard for When Board Members Must Recuse? The Federalist Society Online, February 22, 2018   Raymond J. LaJeunesse In short, IG Berry has broadly construed the recusal requirements for Member Emanuel, but did so only narrowly for former Member Becker. Moreover, Berry’s citation of Becker’s Service Employees Local…

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NILRR Right to Work News February 16, 2018

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UAW Provides Another Example of Big Labor’s Disregard For Employee Interests www.nilrr.org, February 15, 2018 It also means UAW-boss PR campaigns against Right to Work in Michigan and elsewhere have been using the false “premise that [organized] labor protects the interests of the men and women working in auto plants.” At the end of 2012,…

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NILRR Right to Work February 09, 2018

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Big Labor Boss Barricade Against Right To Work Costs Missourians Jobs nilrr.org, February 06, 2018 Across the state of Kentucky, where Right to Work protections are being enforced, U.S. Labor Department data released last month show that the “total” number of people “employed” rose by 100,000 in 2017 over 2016. Meanwhile, during the same period,…

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NILRR Right to Work Clips

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Trump’s Appointees Are Restoring Reason to the NLRB Wall Street Journal Online, January 31, 2018\ Meantime, the new NLRB has more repair work to do. Up next for reversal could be an Obama-era rule that cut the median time for union elections by more than a third, making them harder for management to contest. Last…

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