Posts Tagged ‘Union Organizing’
NILRR Clips August 8, 2014
National Right to Work Supreme Court Victory Forces SEIU to Abandon Forced Dues Demands in Illinois, Minnesota, & Massachusetts nrtw.org, August 5, 2014 “Thanks to a National Right to Work Foundation-won victory at the U.S. Supreme Court, SEIU bosses across the country are being forced to back down from their forced union dues demands,” stated…
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Labor leaders say from now on union organizing will be different People’s World Online, July 31, 2014 When he came out of a closed door session of the council here July 30 Larry Cohen, the chair of the AFL-CIO’s organizing committee, said that from here on out union organizing is going to take on a…
Read MoreNILRR Clipsheet, July 25, 2014
It’s unions that treat nonmembers as ‘whipping boys’: Guest opinion Oregonlive.com, July 22, 2014 The normally calm Nesbitt states that the high court has made “whipping boys” of both unions and home care workers. I disagree. It is government employee unions that have been treating home care workers as whipping boys. Until the Supreme…
Read MoreUnion-led Demonstrations Barred
Courts are increasingly finding union-led demonstrations violatenumerous laws. Ryan Williams has the story in The Hill. Last year the state’s Benton County Circuit Court issued a restraining order prohibiting the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) and its “subsidiary” OUR Walmart from any actions on company property or at Walmart events. As a…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips June 03 2014
High Court Has Long Admitted Compulsory Payments to Government Unions May ‘Interfere . . . With an Employee’s Freedom to Associate’ On May 29, 2014, in News Clips, by Stan Greer There are many problems with rabidly pro-forced unionism California labor studies professor John Logan’s attack op-ed, published by The Hill today, against the plaintiffs…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips April 26, 2014
UPMC employees, beware of card check Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, April 21, 2014 This is where the SEIU’s theatrics come in. The SEIU and its allies have repeatedly attacked UPMC in an apparent effort to force management to agree to a card check unionization drive. Protests that block traffic, hunger strikes and public attacks on UPMC’s tax…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Clipsheet April 04, 2014
Sens. McConnell, Paul Introduce National Right to Work Amendment www.mcconnell.senate.gov, April 02, 2014 “But right now, I’d like to talk about another jobs proposal Senator Paul and I have again introduced – national Right to Work legislation. It would allow American workers to choose whether or not they’d like to join a union…
Read MoreGrass Roots Activism-Union Boss Style
Michael Saltsman uncovers the truth behind the so-called rallies union bosses have been trying to attribute to fast food and other retail workers. His story appears on triblive.com. Did you hear about last week’s union-organized protests at fast food restaurants? Don’t worry – no one else heard about them, either. These so-called strikes have always…
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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