NILRR.org Updated Union-run Pensions in Critical Status

The National Institute for Labor Relations Research updated the multiemployer pension plans determined to be in critical or endangered status.  Go to NILRR.org’s Critical, Endangered and WRERA Status Notices page to view more. 2013 Critical Status Notices 2013 Endangered Status Notices

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Big Labor Is Going to Pot

In a stunning reversal, Big Labor puts individual choice before the “collective good” when it comes to organizing marijuana growers.  Jillian Kay Melchior has the story in National Review Online today. Dropping membership is the waking nightmare of American unionism. To cope, Big Labor is turning to pot. Cannabis holds out promise as a growth industry,…

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“There Will Be Blood”: Union Violence in the Age of Obama

  From Michelle Malkin, a short overview on union violence, including the incidents which accompanied passage of Michigan’s Right to Work Law. Not so many moons ago, President Obama urged us all to “make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds.” He Who Heals…

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NILRR News Clips – May 25, 2012

Union Bosses Set Forest Fire Captain’s Religious Rights Ablaze www.nrtw.org, May 21, 2012 With free legal assistance from National Right to Work Foundation attorneys, Susanville firefighter John Valentich filed the charge against the CDFF union with the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission located in San Francisco. What’s…

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NILRR News Clips – April 20, 2012

Mark Mix: Union muscling in to O.C. hospital Orange County Register, April 12, 2012 Unknown figures entering your workplace through the back door without identification. Harassing late night phone calls. Strangers blocking your driveway and studying your exact movements. These are not just the tactics of common criminals and thugs; they are also the tactics…

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