Union-Only Port Terminal Suspends Operations
Committee President Mark Mix: “If I were a Leatherman dockworker, I certainly wouldn’t count on Longshore Union bosses to show any flexibility” to get the terminal reopened and “save my job.”
The August 2011 issue of The National Right to Work Committee Newsletter is available for download August 2011 Newsletter in an Adobe pdf format for your convenience to read and share. It is the Committee’s official newsletter publication that provides an excellent monthly overview of the battle against forced unionism.
August 2011 issue headlines:
Committee Mobilizes Support For Forced-Dues Repeal — House Speaker Urged to Allow Roll-Call Floor Vote on H.R.2040
Still Eager to ‘Strap’ Workers ‘to the Mast’— Ex-Clinton Labor Chief Tramples Truth to Defend Forced Unionism
State After State Rejects Union-Only PLAs — But Obama Administration Continues to Back Anti-Taxpayer Schemes
Recent Right to Work Victories Under Fire — Big Labor Campaigning For Reinstatement of Forced Union Dues
House Jousts With Obama NLRB’s Top Lawyer — But Congress Needs to Do Much More to Curtail Board Abuses
‘Choice to Remain Unrepresented’ Under Attack — Extremist Vision of Obama NLRB Appointee Moves Toward Realization
Committee President Mark Mix: “If I were a Leatherman dockworker, I certainly wouldn’t count on Longshore Union bosses to show any flexibility” to get the terminal reopened and “save my job.”
According to AFSCME Local 1632 President Will Harmon, Columbus Water & Power committed a grievous offense by subcontracting out the job of clearing away invasive weeds and brush spread out across two acres of its property to a tribe of roughly 40 goats without first “negotiating” with Big Labor.
One longtime IAFF official who is now in the spotlight for his crass denigration of “two-hatters” -- that is, professional firefighters who also serve as volunteers -- is Pennsylvania Democrat politician Bob Brooks.