Posts Tagged ‘Union Corruption’
NILRR Right to Work Clipsheet November 13, 2015
UMWA endorses Jim Justice for governor WV Metro News, November 12, 2015 When asked about how he would handle a right-to-work bill as governor, Justice said he would veto it. Why bond-buyers prefer red states Your Daily Journal Online, November 12, 2015 States with strong public-employee unions – which they measured with membership rates, collective-bargaining…
Read MoreNILRR Clipsheet August 28, 2015
Symposium: Will the Court continue to recognize a distinction between bargaining with government and lobbying the government? SCOTUSblog.com, August 25, 2015 Leaving aside the positive impact on public policy of reducing the unique power and financial resources of public-sector unions, the Friedrichs decision will have profound implications for the First Amendment rights of millions of…
Read MoreEx-Florida Teacher Union Boss, Already Awaiting Trial For Racketeering and Grand Theft, Indicted For Mail Fraud
Florida is one of just a handful of states in which the monopoly-bargaining privileges of government union officials, including teacher union bosses, are constitutionally enshrined. In practice, what this means is that in order to eliminate or even roll back substantially the scope of Big Labor’s effective veto power over proposed reforms in the way…
Read MoreNILRR CLIPSHEET July 24, 2015
Michigan Hospital Employees Win Settlement After SEIU Union Bosses Blocked Workers from Exercising Right to Work www.nrtw.org, July 23, 2015 Seven workers at Mercy Memorial Hospital in Monroe, MI have won a settlement from Service Employees International Union Local 79 (SEIU) in a case challenging SEIU officials’ failure to obey Michigan’s new Right to Work…
Read MoreNILRR Clipsheet July 17, 2015
Federal Union Lawyers Rediscover Freedom of Non-Association National Institute for Labor Relations Research, July 16, 2015 In November, 2011, Jarman, a security guard at Red River Army Depot (RRAD) in Texarkana, Texas, applied for membership in Local 2189 of the NFFE union after being promoted to a job that put him under that union’s “exclusive”…
Read MoreNILRR Clipsheet June 26, 2015
ALRB’s top lawyer named to governor’s staff Fresno Bee Online, June 24, 2015 Sylvia Torres-Guillen, 49, of Los Angeles will become special counsel to the governor. She had been the ALRB’s general counsel since 2011. Beyond the Gerawan case, Torres-Guillén has been sparring with the ALRB’s new chairman, William Gould, who has wanted to take…
Read MoreNILRR News Clips June 05, 2015
11 Million Workers Are Forced To Pay Union Dues: Congress Should Help Them The Daily Caller Online, June 03, 2015 The National Right to Work Act (S. 391/H.R. 612) was introduced in both chambers of Congress earlier this year. This easy to read, one-page bill does not add one single word to federal law, it…
Read MoreNILRR Clips April 17, 2015
NLRB takes on right-to-work – Finance to hold hearing on TPA today politico.com, April 17, 2015 NLRB TAKES ON RIGHT-TO-WORK: The National Labor Relations Board’s newest target is the right-to-work movement. In a call for briefs yesterday, the agency said it may allow a union to collect a fee from a non-member in a right-to-work…
Read More35K Union Membership?
Union members and officials have been indicted on charges of accepting bribes to allow workers to join Steamfitters Local 638. MaryAnnSpoto has the story on nj.com. A Middletown man has admitted to helping an official in his union accept bribes in return for granting memberships. Christopher Lupino, 51, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court on…
Read MoreProphet Pleads Guilty in Philly Racketeering
Three more members of Ironworkers Local401have pleaded guilty to federal charges of racketeering, but the judge is refusing to accept the charges without further information. U. S. District Judge Michael Baylson, indicated he believed in “proportionality.” That is, the more culpability the client has, the more severe the sentence.Julie Shaw has the story on philly.com.…
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