Posts Tagged ‘Wisconsin’
NILRR Weekly Clips May 3, 2013
Anti-Right to Work Campaign in Ohio Roughs up the Truth www.nilrr.org, April 27th, 2013 While the importance of and need for an Ohio Right to Work law are now being recognized by more and more citizens, grass-roots proponents have yet to agree about what is the most promising approach for reaching their objective. Nevertheless, Big…
Read MoreUnions Continue End Runs Around Wisconsin Act 10
Public employee union bossescontinue “business as usual” even after Wisconsin’s Act 10 has been upheld, and eliminates bargaining on anythign other then wages for government employees. Government union bosses, however, think the law is something made to be ignored, or, at the very least, cicrumvented. Daniel Bice explains the debacle in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips April 26, 2013
New Twinkie Maker Shuns Union Labor Wall Street Journal Online, April 25, 2013 Chief Executive C. Dean Metropoulos said the company will pump $60 million in capital investments into the plants between now and September and aims to hire at least 1,500 workers. But they won’t be represented by unions, including the one whose nationwide…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips April 19, 2013
Can Autoworkers Union Bosses Really Kick the Job-Killing Habit? Don’t Bet On It! www.nilrr.org, April 14th, 2013 UAW seeks toehold in South with Tennessee Volkswagen plan Writing in George Mason University’[…] Record Indicates Right to Work Law Would Economically Benefit Missouri Employees, Businesses www.nilrr.org, April 12th, 2013 House Makes History Regarding Right To Work Legislation …
Read MoreForced-Unionism Advocates Shouldn’t Gloat Too Much Over This Week’s Wisconsin Court Ruling
Explaining the Latest Act 10 Court Action – Right Wisconsin … Big Labor bosses and other proponents of reinstating compulsory union dues and fees and wide-ranging union monopoly bargaining in Wisconsin government workplaces where these practices have been curtailed by Act 10, which the Legislature adopted two years ago, are currently gloating about a state court decision issued…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly News Clips March 15, 2013
H.R. 1120, the Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act House of Representatives Education and Workforce Committee, March 13, 2013 Links to Foundation Story In January 2012, President Obama installed three so-called recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board while Congress was not in recess. In the wake of the president’s unprecedented action, efforts…
Read MoreGovernment Union Bosses’ 2011 Ohio ‘Victory’ Proving Costly to Public Employees
Union Membership and Coverage Database Two years ago this month, Wisconsin and Ohio made history by becoming the first two states to adopt legislation revoking government union bosses’ privilege to force civil servants to pay union dues or fees as a condition of employment after having previously passed laws authorizing public-sector compulsory unionism. Wisconsin’s Act…
Read MoreProposed ‘Paycheck Protection’ Measure in Missouri Would Have Relatively Little Impact
Union dues collecting is examined by Missouri, Kansas lawmakers Elected officials in the “Show Me” State, like their counterparts in a number of other forced-unionism states, are coming under ever-more intense grass-roots pressure to fight for passage of a state Right to Work law prohibiting compulsory union dues and fees. The vast majority of ordinary Missourians…
Read MoreNILRR Weekly Newsclips February 15, 2013
Workers win settlement against activist union Boston Herald.com, February 14, 2013 Workers caught in a battle between a local union and Lynn-based Complete Cleaning Inc. have won a federal settlement from the union after officials illegally claimed to have monopoly bargaining privileges over the employees, according to the National Right to Work Legal Defense…
Read More“It’s the Union’s Job to Encourage Unrest, Discontent and Unhappiness . . .”
Elijah Grajkowski,Wisconsin public school teacher, explains why he would rather teach in freedom. Read his entire story in the Journal-Sentinel Online. If the teachers union is as wonderful as it claims, then it should have no problem attracting members, without the need to force teachers to join. For years, I have chosen not to be…
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