Posts Tagged ‘United Food and Commercial Workers’
NLRB Sanctions Payment for UFCW Protestors at Wal-Mart
In an unprecedented power play, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled the United Food and Commercial Workers bosses paying nonunion people to protest at Wal-Mart last year, was not illegal. Sean Higgins has the story in the Washington Examiner. OUR Walmart, which presents itself as a group of disaffected Walmart workers, is identified…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips August 9, 2013
A Union Run Amok National Review Online, August 8, 2013 John Raudabaugh, a staff attorney with the National Right to Work Foundation, is representing Clark. He says the union failed to inform employees of their rights to opt out of membership and pay reduced dues so that their money wouldn’t go to the union’s political…
Read MoreChange to Win Union Contemplates Reunion With AFL-CIO
The United Food and Commercial workers, part of the original Change to Win Coalition, appears to be doing just that. After 8 years, it looks as if they may be willing to throw their lot back with the AFL-CIO. Richard Trumka and other AFL-CIO bosses must be overjoyed to have this prodigal producer of forced dues back…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Clipsheet July 12, 2013
Right to Work and a Test for Republicans Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2013 Still, a ranking of 22nd out of 50 states leaves plenty of room for improvement and begs the question: What do the top 10 states for business–Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, Indiana, Arizona, Virginia, South Carolina, Nevada and Georgia–have in…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips May 24, 2013
Tennessee helps lead resurgence in U.S. manufacturing jobs blogs.tennessean.com, May 23, 2013 Tennessee was among the leaders in U.S. manufacturing resurgence during the first quarter of 2013, with a nearly 5 percent gain in jobs over the same period last year, according to a report from IHS Global Insight. Left Blames NLRB…
Read MoreSome Union Officials Now Regretting Support for Health Care Reforms
Big Labor bosses who spent forced dues on President Obama’s reelection and pushed President Obama’s healthcare reforms on everyone, including their own members. Now, it turns out that wasn’t such a good idea. Peter Suderman has the story in reason.com At the beginning of the year, labor groups began to publicly grumble about the potential…
Read MoreBig 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,…
Read MoreUnion Membership Falls — Again
James Sherk, Senior Policy Analyst with the Heritage Foundation, explains why unions do not speak for their members, and consequently continue to lose members. The story is on National Review Online. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported yesterday that unions lost 400,000 members in 2012. Union membership fell from 11.8 to 11.3 percent of all…
Read MorePennsylvania Union Bosses Fight Privatization
Pennsylvania United Food and Commercial Workers union officials are opposing legislation that will privatize liquor sales in Pennsylvania. Government control of liquor has been a plum victory for union bosses.They have given thousands in forced dues to both Republican and Democrat lawmakers to keepcarrying water for forced unionism.Eric Boehm, reason.com, has the story. The United…
Read MoreRight to Work Foundation Takes Up Cause of Nonunion Worker
National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation attorneys have taken up the cause of work freedom for Karen Cox, an Illinois worker whose rights have been denied by union officials and others. Here’s the story: A local affiliate of the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) unionized Cox’s workplace in June 2012. However, union and…
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